Well, I suppose he’d say “No.”
Health care is a human right, but in order to make it happen, we had to figure out how to pay for it. It’s insurance. This fact works in your favour though, as you can tell off cons who claim you want free health care. Sure wish I could find a story of Bernie’s ’99 Canada visit that Bruce Quinn mentioned, to see what the province said.
One reason why Canada created a health insurance program for each province is because it had more than two political parties at the time. The Social Credit Party, which became the New Democratic Party, never manages to win Canada but pushes the leading parties to adopt policies that help people.
Here is an interesting argument in favour of Sanders’ plan that uses some stats from countries that have real health care:
In his article "The False Lure of the Sanders Single-Payer Plan," Paul Starr is wrong about Senator Bernie Sanders's…prospect.org
Mike Post opened my eyes regarding Obamacare. I had the idea in the back of my mind that Obamacare was too compromising; it tried to win health care for everyone and preserve existing insurance companies at the same time, because of American capitalist ideologies. But Mike reveals to me that it’s worse: the poorest Americans are being forced to pay private companies on the companies’ terms. That’s… not capitalism. It’s scary. Is there a name for that… that… thing that isn’t capitalism but is pretending to be because companies win?
