Single Payer Health Insurance: Why Bernie Sanders Just Doesn’t Get It
April 22, 2015
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Single Payer Health Insurance: Why Bernie Sanders Just Doesn’t Get It
Also published in Forbes Tue. April 21, 2015.
Vermont Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared on Fox News yesterday and Chris Wallace asked him why his own state had abandoned all plans to implement single payer health insurance—something that is apparently allowed under Obamacare.
Since Sanders is a self-described “socialist,” you would expect him to be up to the task. He wasn’t. Sanders had no explanation of why Vermont’s brief flirtation with socialized medicine was such a flop. Instead he repeated the standard leftist line: other countries spend half as much as we do and they guarantee everyone health care.
