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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bernie Sanders: Coronavirus Reminds Us Why We Must Guarantee Health Care To All [View all]
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"These are enormously important issues and we need serious debates over them."
"People might not have thought that the United States Congress, the Republican president, the Republican Senate would do what they did," Sanders said about the $1,200 coronavirus stimulus checks going out to most working Americans. "There's a reason for that. And that is that millions of people are now demanding that we have a government that works for all. What role should the campaign play in continuing that fight to make sure that health care becomes a human right, not a privilege, that we raise the minimum wage to a living wage, et cetera, et cetera."
"I think there is growing sentiment in this country that people now understand that it is incomprehensible that we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all, that we have an economy which leaves half of our people...living paycheck to paycheck," Sanders said.
"What kind of system is it where people today are dying, knowing they're sick, but they're not going to the hospital because they can't afford the bill that they'll be picking up?"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/03/27/bernie_sanders_its_going_to_be_a_very_steep_road_to_beat_biden.html

primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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Bernie Sanders: Coronavirus Reminds Us Why We Must Guarantee Health Care To All [View all]
Uncle Joe
Mar 2020
OP
Empty rhetoric. Coronavirus testing & treatments are already declared free.
NCProgressive
Mar 2020
#1
There are few, if any, cases of people dying because they think they can't afford the bill....
George II
Mar 2020
#6
Seriously George! Here is one estimate 45,000 Americans dying every year for that reason,
Uncle Joe
Mar 2020
#11
Ah, pivoted on a dime with a 3-year old article! Read the TITLE of your OP, please.
George II
Mar 2020
#13
Ah, pivoting on a dime to disregard human behavior and history when your argument gets shot down.
Uncle Joe
Mar 2020
#17
Bernie's looking more and more like Statler and Waldorf, that pair of old Muppet characters,
sop
Mar 2020
#12
It also reminds us why we have to the infrastructure to support universal healthcare
ismnotwasm
Mar 2020
#18
I think it is petty of Sanders to use this crisis to stay in the race. Back Biden 100% now.
LizBeth
Mar 2020
#26
Why do we need to be reminded about health care for all? And what, after...
TreasonousBastard
Mar 2020
#30
I know you understand how our government works why if Bernie is on right side of the issue
Uncle Joe
Mar 2020
#34