.gstephanopoulos: 'Does that also mean busing? ...your website actually says that you're coming out for repealing of the ban on funding for busing.' Sen. Sanders: 'Busing is certainly an option that's necessary in certain cases, but it's not the optimal'
The United States must end the international embarrassment of not guaranteeing health care as a right, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said ABC's"This Week" Sunday.
His proposal for Medicare for all would dismantle President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, eliminate private insurance and create a single-payer program, in which all Americans would participate in a single, government-run plan that does not include deductibles and out-of-out pocket costs. Critics say Sanders' plan would dramatically increase taxes.
Following his push for the policy in 2016, the policy has become a progressive litmus test for candidates this election cycle. "If you support Medicare for all, you have to be willing to end the greed of the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries. That means boldly transforming our dysfunctional system by ending the use of private health insurance" Sanders wrote."It is imperative that we remain steadfast in our commitment to guarantee health care as a human right and no longer private corporations to make billions of dollars in profits off Americans' health care.
Responding to one of the more contentious moments of the two-night debate, Sanders was also asked on"This Week" what his current thoughts were on school busing, after Harris grilled former Vice President Joe Biden on his opposition to school busing to desegregate schools back in the 1970s.
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