Crazy Bernie is at least Upfront with Much of his Insanity.Archived Message
Posted by Wally Bunker on February 12, 2020, 8:37 pm
Bernie Sanders Tells Union Worker: I’d ‘Absolutely’ Take Away Your Health Care Plan.
Independent Vermont Senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders told a worker in Iowa that he would “absolutely” take away his union’s right to bargain for health care plans Monday.
“Okay. All right, Somebody tell me why I’m crazy,” the Vermont politician said while interacting with a crowd in Iowa.
Sanders: “I want to be frank I don’t want to…oh I guess the guy could tell me why I’m crazy. All right, there’s a Cubs fan…”
Audience member: “Wouldn’t the Medicare health care plan … wouldn’t that take away our right to bargain for our — our medical benefits?”
Sanders: “Yeah, absolutely it would. It’s not a bad thing.”
Sanders is currently running for the Democratic nomination and has built his campaign around democratic socialist proposals on health care and the environment.
The senator, himself a millionaire, has also proposed that illegal immigrants be included in his “Medicare For All” plan.
“When I talk about health care being a human right, last time I heard that undocumented people are human beings as well,” he said in June. (
Medicare For All has become the key issue in the Democratic primary. California Sen. Kamala Harris initially supported a Sanders-style universal health care program, but recently backtracked, telling a group of wealthy donors that she has “not been comfortable” with Bernie Sanders’ health care plan.
However, there is one area that almost all Democrats agree on: the importance of giving government health care plans to illegal immigrants.
At a debate in June, all 10 Democrats on stage raised their hands when asked whether illegal immigrants would be included in their plans.
on February 12, 2020, 8:37 pm