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 via Obamacare, which was made regulation by Democrats on a celebration line vote. It’s fully 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 truth.
Bernie tries to spin this by saying that Republicans are permitting 1000’s of People 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 stated the well being care points will come to a vote if you happen to open the federal government first. He can’t assure the end result however he’ll get the vote. Why is that no good?”
Sanders: “Effectively, 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 particular person 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 large lovely invoice is to throw 15 million low earnings and dealing class individuals off the well being care they presently have by large cuts in Medicaid and the Reasonably priced Care Act. You realize what research present, guys? Let’s speak about this. Research present that, whenever you throw 15 million low earnings 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 power sickness, they’ll die. On high of that, all around the nation, in my state of Vermont, all around 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 realize what’s occurring 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 may proper now enable 50,000 individuals to die unnecessarily, I need it completely clear that that won’t occur, interval.”
Watch the change beneath:
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 eager 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 accomplished for such apparent causes.
