“The debate we are currently having in this campaign and this country has nothing to do with health care, but it has everything to do with the greed and profits of the health care industry,” Sen. Sanders says.
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., defended his call for a single-payer 'Medicare for All' program Wednesday, pushing back against criticism from former Vice President Joe Biden and other Democratic presidential candidates who have decried it as unrealistic and overly disruptive.
“The debate we are currently having in this campaign and this country has nothing to do with health care, but it has everything to do with the greed and profits of the health care industry,” Sanders said.Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, announced a pledge to not take any contributions from political action committees, lobbyists or executives associated with the insurance or pharmaceutical industries and challenged other candidates to follow suit.
Sanders has not specified how he will pay for his plan, which he said Tuesday would cost the government. But he has conceded middle class taxes will need to go up given its scale, something Biden has attacked him for proposing.
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