Senator Bernie Sanders appeared on CBS Information this morning to advertise his guide about ‘combating 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 legislation by Democrats on a celebration line vote. It’s fully their fault.
Sanders is out right here saying that the Inexpensive Care Act didn’t make healthcare reasonably priced and nobody even thinks to say this reality.
Bernie tries to spin this by saying that Republicans are permitting hundreds of People to die, however by no means addresses the straightforward undeniable 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 in the event you open the federal government first. He can’t assure the 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 individual because the folks 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 huge lovely invoice is to throw 15 million low earnings and dealing class folks off the well being care they presently have by huge cuts in Medicaid and the Inexpensive Care Act. what research present, guys? Let’s discuss this. Research present that, while you throw 15 million low earnings and dealing class folks off well being care, 50,000 folks a 12 months — a 12 months — 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 prime of that, all around the nation, in my state of Vermont, all around the nation, folks proper now are receiving notices from their insurance coverage firms, their premiums are going to go up by 20 p.c — by — by double.”
Dokoupil: “So open the federal government and vote on it. Make the case.”
Sanders: “Actually? No, and let 50,000 folks die after Trump vetoes the laws if the Home doesn’t take care of the laws? what’s occurring proper now within the Home? The Speaker of the Home, Mr. Johnson, has given his folks 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 folks to die unnecessarily, I would like it completely clear that that won’t occur, interval.”
Watch the trade 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 folks a 12 months 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 only political and it’s being accomplished for such apparent causes.
