Bernie will take a fact-finding mission to Cuba and Venezuela.
Via Newsweek:
Bernie Sanders is returning to a key campaign promise and will introduce a single-payer healthcare bill in the wake of the Republicans’ Obamacare replacement defeat.
The Vermont senator said Sunday that he was willing to work with both Democrats and Republicans to provide “insurance for all,” two days after the GOP leadership’s American Health Care Act was pulled from the House floor to avoid a legislative defeat. Sanders’ support for a single-payer system was a centerpiece of his unsuccessful run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“Where we should be going is to join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee healthcare to all people as a right,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Sanders’ comments came a day after he told a crowd in Hardwick, Vermont, that Medicare-for-all is “a common sense proposal, and I think once the American people understand it, we can go forward with it,” according to Vermont Public Radio.
“Let us do, among other things, a public option. Let us give people in every state in this country a public option from which they can choose. Let’s talk about lowering the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 55. Let’s deal with the greed of the pharmaceutical industry,” he said on CNN.