Bernie Sanders Calls On California and Trump To Embrace Single Payer Health Care At Consumer Watchdog’s Rage for Justice Awards, Decries ACA Repeal -…
Bernie Sanders Calls On California and
By a
"The great state of
Watch the full speech, in which Sanders also takes on the fossil fuel industry, oligarchy in America and the president: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk47E8qCfGs&feature=youtu.be
The couple received Consumer Watchdog's Public Servants of the Year award. Also honored at the dinner were
Turning to the so-called American Health Care Act passed by the
Sanders cited recent comments by
"Everybody is right once in a while," Sanders said. "And on this particular instance, Trump is quite right."
"So, let me say to the president that if you think the Australian health care system is so good, well, I am going to give you the opportunity to support Legislation that I am going to introduce." Sanders' plans to introduce a bill that would provide Medicare For All, single-payer coverage.
Sanders said that while the bad news is who is currently in power in the
"We must educate, organize and bring the American people together so that government works for all of us," Sanders said.
"I want to thank you for standing up for those who do not have a voice," Sanders told the audience of activists, lawyers, artists, nurses, labor union leaders, students, educators, and philanthropists. "Consumers are being ripped off every day by insurance companies, by drug companies that charge us the highest prices in the world for life saving medicine... Our people are being ripped off by the greed and illegal behavior on
Consumer Watchdog hosts the Rage for Justice Awards to honor the heroes and heroines of the public interest movement. The awards are named after Congressman
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