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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He's an idiot. We have Parkinsons in our family and pay $10k per month out of pocket. Debt? No, just eating through savings. If anyone thinks the government will pay that, they are sadly mistaken. The government will pay for oxycodone-warehouse-care at a so-called nursing home. They are the cheaper alternative because they have very little staff and put everyone on the happy pills (probably including the staff).
bernie is essentially tied with warren at 17% in the rcp poll average:
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