Senator Bernie Sanders appeared on CBS Information this morning to advertise his ebook about ‘preventing oligarchy’ and claimed that the American healthcare system is damaged, however neither he nor the hosts ever point out who broke it.
How did we get right here? It was by means of Obamacare, which was made regulation by Democrats on a celebration line vote. It’s totally their fault.
Sanders is out right here saying that the Reasonably priced Care Act didn’t make healthcare inexpensive and nobody even thinks to say this reality.
Bernie tries to spin this by saying that Republicans are permitting 1000’s of Individuals to die, however by no means addresses the easy incontrovertible fact that Obamacare has been a complete failure.
Transcript by Curtis Houck on Twitter/X:
Dokoupil: “Chief Thune over the Senate has mentioned the well being care points will come to a vote should you open the federal government first. He can’t assure the result however he’ll get the vote. Why is that no good?”
Sanders: “Properly, I’ll inform you why it’s no good. The present well being care system is damaged. It’s dysfunctional. We spend twice as a lot per individual because the individuals of different nation, 85 million uninsured, we don’t have sufficient medical doctors, nurses, dentists, et cetera. It’s a damaged system. What Trump did in his massive stunning invoice is to throw 15 million low revenue and dealing class individuals off the well being care they at present have by large cuts in Medicaid and the Reasonably priced Care Act. You recognize what research present, guys? Let’s speak about this. Research present that, once you throw 15 million low revenue and dealing class individuals off well being care, 50,000 individuals a yr — a yr — will die unnecessarily. They don’t have the cash to go to a health care provider, they’ve a persistent sickness, they’ll die. On prime of that, everywhere in the nation, in my state of Vermont, everywhere in the nation, individuals proper now are receiving notices from their insurance coverage firms, their premiums are going to go up by 20 % — by — by double.”
Dokoupil: “So open the federal government and vote on it. Make the case.”
Sanders: “Actually? No, and let 50,000 individuals die after Trump vetoes the laws if the Home doesn’t cope with the laws? You recognize what’s happening proper now within the Home? The Speaker of the Home, Mr. Johnson, has given his individuals a five-week trip. They’re not even in Washington, D.C. earlier than I vote on a invoice that can proper now enable 50,000 individuals to die unnecessarily, I need it completely clear that that won’t occur, interval.”
Watch the change under:
CBS’s Tony Dokoupil completely cooks Bernie Sanders over the federal government shutdown and, when Sanders doubles down and insists Republicans are murdering 50,000 individuals a yr if the ObamaCare subsidies expire, calls him out for not desirous to “make the case” and let the chips fall…… pic.twitter.com/GmjxnPpdDA
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 20, 2025
Bernie Sanders is totally dishonest on this argument. Leaving the failures of Obamacare out of this dialog is solely political and it’s being finished for such apparent causes.
