'Not Radical Ideas': Bernie Sanders Champions Medicare For All

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During a "Fight Oligarchy" rally in Viroqua, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about the need to create single-payer healthcare in America.

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00:00All right, we're going to work hard to do our best every day to stop Trump's

00:06outrageous actions, but it is not good enough just to be against Donald Trump.

00:13We've got to be for something.

00:17In my view, health care is a human right, not a privilege.

00:42And I want all of you, all of you to think hard.

00:45How does it happen in our great country where we have so many really smart, innovative people?

00:52We have all of this technology.

00:54Why do we remain the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to every

01:01man, woman, and child?

01:05Why are we spending, and this is an incredible fact, we are spending over $14,000 for every

01:14man, woman, and child in this country for health care.

01:17You got that?

01:18That's $56,000 for a family of four.

01:23And yet we have 85 million Americans who are uninsured or underinsured.

01:30We have the lowest life expectancy of any major country on Earth.

01:37And we have 60,000 people a year dying because they don't get to a doctor on time.

01:44So our view is not complicated.

01:47The goal of a health care system in a civilized democratic society is to provide care to all

01:55people in a cost-effective way.

02:01The ideas that I am talking about, that Becker is talking about, are not radical ideas.

02:07I know that the national republicans will say, oh, these are radical, fringe ideas.

02:13This is what the American people believe.

02:24But it's...

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