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Republicans don’t understand what Bernie is doing
Sep 14, 2017, 4:52 PM | Updated: Sep 22, 2017, 9:54 am
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is joined by Democratic Senators and supporters as he arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, to unveil their Medicare for All legislation to reform health care. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Republicans have no clue what is going on around them. They are laughing at Bernie Sanders’ media event “Medicare for All.” The details to this thing are hilarious, but what the GOP doesn’t realize is that he doesn’t care.
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The bill calls for the elimination of private insurance. Everyone will get a Medicare card and then all our problems are solved. But, meanwhile, what does Sanders do about the existing system? He wants to slowly kill insurance companies and he wants to take away choice.
The Republicans say this thing is dead on arrival, but they don’t see what Bernie is doing and what he’s doing is brilliant theater. He’s changing the conversation. He gave the new conversation a name: Medicare for All.
He’s making a promise that he can’t follow through on, but the Republicans can’t make any promises about anything at all.
Bernie is giving socialized medicine a catchy name.
As always, please listen to the full audio clip for complete context.
