Posted on 08/31/2019 2:53:37 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., told an audience in South Carolina Friday that he is working on legislation that would "eliminate medical debt in this country."
Sanders made the remark during a question-and-answer period following a town hall meeting in Florence on "Medicare-for-All." A female attendee explained to Sanders that she doesn't make enough money to qualify for ObamaCare and has a large amount of medical debt not covered by insurance.
When the woman asked Sanders if he had a plan for that, the self-described democratic socialist told her: "In another piece of legislation that we're offering, we're gonna eliminate medical debt in this country."
The Sanders campaign confirmed to Fox News that the proposal was new, but details were scant.
"We are introducing legislation that would end all medical debt in this country," Sanders told reporters as he departed the town hall. "The bottom line is it is an insane and cruel system, which says to people that they have to go deeply into debt or go bankrupt because of what? Because they came down with cancer or they came down with heart disease or they came down with Alzheimer’s, or whatever ...
"In the midst of a dysfunctional healthcare system, we have to say to people that you cannot go bankrupt or end up in financial duress," Sanders added. "That is cruel and something we've gotta handle. This is something that we're working on and that we will introduce."
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"I deserve to be compensated for my great-grampa's constant constipation."
"My entire family has been held back (need I say discriminated against by God Himself) because great-gramps was irregular."
Old man Sanders keeps going full-retard I see.
Going full commie (which is the same thing, I guess).
Socialist Medicine Alert: Rationing, Prioritization and Death Panels coming.
Dang, we already paid our medical bills. How foolish of us!
Does the lazy, old bolshevik wannabee still have a following of any significance? Other than some retarded Vermont folk, it’s hard to believe there are people stupid enough to follow this moron.
Socialist Medicine Alert: Rationing, Prioritization and Death Panels coming.
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And don’t forget how Bernie will pay for this since the Federal Government has no actual money. (You don run $Trillion/year in the hole if you aren’t in fact pennyless.
An honest answer from Bernie is that we will squeeze what we can out of the medical industry and tax the rich (anyone who is at least 1 $ Dollar over middle class status.
But an honest Bernie will tell you that will not be enough to cover the costs. So we will need the Fed to reach in their also empty pockets and find the key that turns on the Money Printer. The Money Printer has unlimited wealth and can provide an infinite amount of funding for as many crazy projects as Crazy Bernie can dream up.
Don’t laugh, this works. Just check out the recent history of Venezuela if you don’t believe me.
Because doctors and nurses and medical staff all want to work for free.
... “In the midst of a dysfunctional healthcare system...
Obamacare is dysfunctional.
They all start by promising to hand out other people’s stuff. When the collapse starts, they slip on the iron boot of oppression.
Someone please explain this kerfuffle to me, or perhaps I'm dense or stoopit, or something like that ... but, wasn't ObamaCare supposed to address *exactly* what she's whining about ???
A socialist government is compassionate, not oppressive, right? Just ask the former Soviets and Chinese.
She has insurance but is low income. She doesn’t qualify for Obamacare, yet doesn’t qualify for Medicaid. Sounds like a story Biden would tell.
A typical liberal voter would be thinking, “what a wonderful idea. Bernie is so thoughtful. I know he could never do it but I like him anyway. I’ll vote for him because he is so generous.”
Seriously, that’s how these idiots think!
Since in the future ‘Bernie World’ all doctors will work for free, without pay (how else can health care be free?) I propose that all authors also work for free, so that everyone, regardless of their income, will be able to read everything. And, we should make this retroactive back a few years, and confiscate all of Bernie’s ill-gotten millions, and 2 of his 3 homes. It’s a matter of ‘fairness.’
“Because doctors and nurses and medical staff all want to work for free.”
Or taxpayers.
All politicians should work for free, because they are the one group that would be paid more than their labor is worth if they were paid anything at all.
Anyone who is smart enough to pass Gross Anatomy is smart enough not to need to practice medicine to earn a living.
So I see Bernie is into soft slavery. He wants people to provide services without just compensation.
Exactly. Force the un-born of future generations to pay.
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