Sen. Bernie Sanders

So today, despite spending so much money, 85 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured.

And if Trump gets his way and throws another 15 million people off of Medicaid, raise that number to roughly 100 million, okay?

There are estimates out there that when you have that many people uninsured, no insurance, and underinsured means high deductibles, right?

So if you've got a high deductible, you may be insured.

I've talked to people, I suspect you have, they had deductibles $10,000, $15,000 a year, right?

So if you don't have any money, what the hell, how do you go to the doctor?

So you add all that together, people get sick, they can't go to the doctor, some 50,000, 60,000 people die a year in America unnecessarily because they don't get to a doctor on time.

That is pretty insane.

So in my view, I push very hard to introduce the legislation, what we call Medicare for All, expanding Medicare to cover every man, woman, and child without out-of-pocket expenses.

We could do that without spending, to your point, not a nickel more than we're currently spending.

Yeah.

Ah.

Now you're getting into another issue.

All right.

Let's do it.

All right.

Look.

In one respect, the healthcare system is working extremely well.

Not for ordinary people, not for you, not for me.

It is working very well for the insurance companies who make zillions of dollars in profit, the drug companies who charge us the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.