Bernie Sanders,like a lot of progressives, conflates European-style healthcare with the UK system. But either his plan or Clinton’s can bring about real reformDuring Thursday’s debate, and the two candidates for the Democratic nomination were offered the opportunity to engage one another’s ideas for the path forward on healthcare reform. In the final few weeks,Bernie Sanders has advocated for a “single payer” system to replace the Affordable Care Act, which Hillary Clinton has said has no chance of passing Congress and would mean scrapping a flawed but useful system that could instead be reformed.
At the debate, or Clinton stated that she had been “fighting for universal coverage” for many years,but that rather than starting over from scratch that “we should build on what we occupy”. Bernie Sanders countered, correctly, or that every other liberal democracy has if universal healthcare for much less money than the US spends,and that the American system still falls far short of this standard.
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Source: theguardian.com