At the We The People Summit in Washington, D.C., the self-avowed democratic socialist cheered the progressive tilt of mainstream American politics.
"We are obviously in a pivotal and unprecedented moment in American history and the fights that we are waging are not just for ourselves, more importantly they are for our kids, our grandchildren and the future of this planet," Sanders said.
"I want to thank all of the groups here because whether you know it or not you have helped transform this country in so many ways," he declared. "
A few years ago...many of the ideas that we talked about were thought to be fringe ideas, radical ideas, extremist ideas. Well, you know what? Because of your efforts those ideas are now mainstream American ideas."
But you don't see Canadians complaining that the government has "control" over their helth care precisely because the government does not... it merely PAYS for the treatment needed, it does *not* choose who the doctor, or the clinic will be - that is chosen by the citizen when they seek medical help in the first place. Again, the government does not control shit, it merely pays for the health care coverage, which is funded by tax money (as opposed to funding wars). Despite this fact, a quick look at right-wing websites and right-wing speeches will tell you how low info their voters are: they insist on the "government control is super dangerous" bullshit. Indeed, government control is dangerous, but only when it exists.
Meanwhile, more than 40 thousand people day in the US every year die to lack of health care coverage in the US. That number is zero in Canada, zero in Australia, zero in Sweden, Finland... and basically every other developed nation. But the right-wing insist in keeping that in order to protect the pockets of obviously unnecessary middle man represented by the private insurance companies.
This is one of the issues where the low level of the median right-wing voter becomes very evident. Another example: they love to bring up the COSTS, the COSTS, the COSTs of universal care system. Indeed, such a system costs billions. But in that context, they fail to bring up THE COSTS OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM and how the two compare... they do a magick trick in the minds of dumb unaware people, so that they forget that the current system too has a price.. most people tend to simply forget that! And what do you know? when you compare the costs of the two systems, medicare for all would SPARE billions, and not add extra billions, because society will pay for a new system, but will also stop paying for one that is far far more expensive. The Righ-wing is a master of illusionism.
There have been studies estimating the cost of Medicare For All and comparing to the current system, proving how much sense it makes by the economic perspective, but oddly, those studies didn't receive much attention. Also, you need only look up per capita costs with health care by country and compare France, Australia, Canada, Italy, Netherlands with the US and see the glaring diffeence!!!
I hope nobody brings up the "oh but those are smaller countries" arguments, because we are talking about PER CAPITA numbers.