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(I-Vt.), the runner-up for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination and a 2020 candidate, said his "Medicare for All" program would extend health care coverage to the 11 million illegal im
"We are gonna end that and create a Medicare for All healthcare system which guarantees health care to every man woman and child and saves the average American substantial sums of money," Sanders said at the NALEO conference in Miami.
"Senator, would you include the 11 million undocumented im
"Absolutely. Absolutely," Sanders responded. "When I talk about health care being a human right, last time I heard that undocumented people are human beings as well."
"American human beings?"
"Well no, but
Interestingly, Sanders also admitted that government-funded health care programs have serious problems.
"Now to answer your question, I will not deny that every country on earth that has a national health care program, all have problems. That’s the nature of health care and a changing technology. But what I want everybody to understand is literally starting yesterday, the insurance companies and the drug companies are starting to spend tens and tens of millions of dollars to fight against Medicare for All. And we will organize the American people around the concept that all people in this country have the right to health care and at the end of the day, we are going to win that struggle," he said.