On
Sunday night... someone finally thought to ask Bernie Sanders about his
home state's experience adopting a single-payer healthcare system.
Vermont had planned to use Obamacare and the millions in federal grants
that accompanied it as a jumping-off point for establishing its own
universal state-run health insurance system. The plan had to be
abandoned, however, when lawmakers and the state's Democratic governor
were finally informed it would require a doubling of the state's budget.
When Andrea Mitchell asked the question, Sanders gave just the sort of
weak answer you'd expect.
"Let me just say that you
might
want to ask the governor of the state of Vermont why he could not do
it," Sanders said. "I'm not the governor. I'm the senator from the
state of Vermont."
Of course, this is a rather damning commentary on the policy. Vermont's
governor, unlike its senator, has to worry about budgets balancing and
taxpayer rebellions and the like.
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If memory serves, didn't the Clintons (collectively known as 'Billary' at the time) endorse Bernie Sanders run for the Senate, OVER the Democratic Candidate for Vermont? It's funny, the things that will haunt us later in life. How ironic it will be if his groundswell leads to her defeat in the primaries.
ReplyDeleteI like irony.
ReplyDeleteHow apropos that Democrats must choose between Lenin or Stalin
ReplyDeleteActually, Rodger, I'm beginning to think Rush might be right on his call that Bernie will NEVER be allowed to represent the Dims. If it starts to look like Hillary will either lose to Bernie or present a poor showing due to the perceived loss of millennial voters, the DNC types will unleash the FBI to 'take her out', and allow the 'needed' entry of Joe and the fauxcahontas.
ReplyDeleteScuttlebutt we've heard is that it'll be Governor Moonbeam who'll take up the mantle of the fallen Hillary…
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