'Their Nightmare'
With more than 7 million Americans signing up for health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act, critics who predicted its collapse are instead dealing with “their worst nightmare,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Monday.
“First, the United States remains the only country in the industrialized world that doesn’t guarantee health care to all of its people as a right.
Second of all, the Republicans have opposed the Affordable Care Act from day one – it is their nightmare that it succeeds.
Thirdly these are the same guys that want to end Medicare as we know it, convert it into a voucher program, who want to make massive cuts in Medicaid, who had eight years under Bush to do something – even a little thing – about health care, they did nothing. So these guys have nothing at all to say. And their nightmare is as millions of people begin to get affordable health care, as the Medicaid program expands and people who never had health insurance in their lives finally are able to go into a doctor – for the Republicans this is a nightmare. Imagine that the United States government does something for ordinary people and not just for billionaires – what kind of nightmare is that? That is their fear, Ed,” Sanders said in an interview with Ed Schultz on MSNBC.
With more than 7 million Americans signing up for health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act, critics who predicted its collapse are instead dealing with “their worst nightmare,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Monday.
“First, the United States remains the only country in the industrialized world that doesn’t guarantee health care to all of its people as a right.
Second of all, the Republicans have opposed the Affordable Care Act from day one – it is their nightmare that it succeeds.
Thirdly these are the same guys that want to end Medicare as we know it, convert it into a voucher program, who want to make massive cuts in Medicaid, who had eight years under Bush to do something – even a little thing – about health care, they did nothing. So these guys have nothing at all to say. And their nightmare is as millions of people begin to get affordable health care, as the Medicaid program expands and people who never had health insurance in their lives finally are able to go into a doctor – for the Republicans this is a nightmare. Imagine that the United States government does something for ordinary people and not just for billionaires – what kind of nightmare is that? That is their fear, Ed,” Sanders said in an interview with Ed Schultz on MSNBC.
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