Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernard (Bernie) SandersThe Memo: GOP frets as Trump squanders advantages Buttigieg jokingly tells Democrats to nominate 'new-generation, young, good-looking mayor' in 2020 Puerto Ricans say they cannot afford food, medicine as they await federal food stamp funding increase: AP MORE (I-Vt.) said Sunday that "thousands of people will literally die" if President Trump Donald John TrumpSaudi King 'absolutely rejects' Trump measure on Golan Heights Five things to watch as 2020 Dems release their tax returns Baldwin returns to SNL to summarize Mueller report: 'Daddy won' MORE does away with the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.
"If Trump gets his way, the cost of health insurance ... will be so high that many people literally will not be able to afford it. Thousands of people will literally die. That’s Trump’s health insurance plan," Sanders said during an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation."
"My plan is just a little bit different. I think we should join the rest of the industrialized world, guarantee health care to all people as a right," Sanders added.
Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, was an early proponent of "Medicare for all." He said Sunday that he plans to introduce his newest Medicare for all plan "within the next couple of weeks."
"When we do that, what we understand is that it is just not acceptable that 30 million Americans have no health insurance and even more are underinsured with high deductibles and high copayments," he added.
.@BernieSanders says he will re-introduce his Medicare for All plan in the Senate “in the next couple of weeks.” pic.twitter.com/KjYelxj8Xn — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) March 31, 2019
Sanders's remarks come after Trump said last week that the GOP will become the "the party of health care."
"Let me just tell you exactly what my message is: The Republican Party will soon be known as the party of health care. You watch," Trump told reporters during a visit to the Capitol.
Earlier last week, the Department of Justice sided with a federal judge who ruled that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down.
U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled last year that the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate is unconstitutional, thus making the rest of the law invalid.
The Trump administration has not yet presented an alternative plan to replace former President Obama's signature health care law.
SenorBeef on March 31st, 2019 at 19:03 UTC »
This is why I hate when people try to downplay politics by saying "relax, it's just politics, don't get so worked up over it."
We're not talking about two groups deciding who to name a post office after. We're talking about life and death.
Republicans want to strip poor people of access to healthcare. Full stop.
It's not "here's our idea on health care. It works a little differently but we think it will serve people better."
It's "we want to take away the health care the other side gave you. Fuck them and fuck you. No, we have no alternative plan. We just want to destroy their ideas."
We're so fucking concerned about civility and pretending both parties are good faith actors who have competing ideas to help you. Republicans literally just want to kill you via lack of access to health care if you're in the bottom half of income.
evilmonkey2 on March 31st, 2019 at 16:13 UTC »
Yeah but if Sanders gets his way then someone poorer and less fortunate than myself might get the same level of healthcare that I have for themselves and their children. Can't be having that. Damn freeloaders.
/s obviously.
JimBobDwayne on March 31st, 2019 at 15:55 UTC »
After the implementation of Obamacare preventable deaths in the USA were nearly cut in half.
http://burghoff.scripts.mit.edu/home/obamacare-has-already-saved-the-lives-of-90000-people/