millions of people together to take on not just wall street, but the pharmaceutical industry and the insurance companies and create a government that works for us all. so this is not going to be an easy pass. no one you know, no one has ever heard me say, oh, yeah, first day in office we got single-payer. that has got to be the vision that we fight for, because that is the most effective way to provide quality health care to all of our people in a much more cost effective way than the dysfunctional system we have now. so then i think the question becomes, the vision of universal health care and something that, again, you have put out legislation, right? so this isn t just completely an abstraction, but there is this question of how that gets paid for. and in comparable countries, the fact is, in other countries that have universal health care, there are generally higher taxes, not just on the wealthy, but across the board. the social democracy of europe paid for benefits with highe
sharpness in dogs 7 and older. (ray) it was shocking. she s much more aware. (jan) she loves the food. (ray) she wants to learn things. the difference has been incredible. (vo) purina pro plan bright mind. nutrition that performs. make healthy saychoices.ten but up to 90% fall short in getting key nutrients . . from food alone. let s do more. add one a day women s . .complete multivitamin. with vitamin d and calcium to help support bone health. one a day. joining me now, bernie sanders, senator from vermont, democratic candidate for president. senator, let s get into it here. the attacks on your health care proposal and your long and stalwart advocacy for single-payer, it seems to me there are three parts to this. i want to take them in order so you can respond. the first is just the disruption. the idea is that we would be moving we ve had a big disruption in the health care system, the affordable care act,
remain the only nation in the industrialized world that doesn t guarantee health care to all people. we have 29 million people who are uninsured, even we have 29 million people who have no insurance, and even more who are underinsured. we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs that our health care outcomes are not particularly good. and yet we are spending far, far more per capita on health care than do the people of any other country. so it seems to me that we should be able to do what every other major country on earth does, guarantee health care to all people in a cost-effective way. now, if i m elected president, will we pass a medicare for all, single-payer program on the first day that i am in office? the answer is, i think safe to say, no, we won t. but that is the vision that we must strive to. universal health care at a cost-effective way, which our system today certainly is not.
voted against the affordable care act 55 times. so i worry that if we give republicans democratic permission to do that, we ll go back to an era before we had the affordable care act. that will strip millions and millions and millions of people of their health insurance. that leaves out some pretty important context about sanders plan. most importantly, perhaps, while people would lose their current insurance under a single-payer system if a single-payer system was passed and signed, everyone would then have government-run insurance to replace it. this morning, hillary clinton didn t back away, arguing he wanted to rip up obamacare as we know it. for example, we have a difference on health care. i want to build on the affordable care act. you ve got to make some changes, because we have to improve it. he s been talking very generally about a single-payer system. he s introduced legislation nine
affordable care act. that will strip millions and millions and millions of people of their health insurance. that leaves out some pretty important context about sanders plan. most importantly, perhaps, while people would lose their current insurance under a single-payer system if a single-payer system was passed and signed, everyone would then have government-run insurance to replace it. this morning, hillary clinton didn t back away, arguing he wanted to rip up obamacare as we know it. for example, we have a difference on health care. i want to build on the affordable care act. you ve got to make some changes, because we have to improve it. he s been talking very generally about a single-payer system. he s introduced legislation nine times that have laid out a very specific plan to take everybody s health care and roll it into a great big bundle and hand it to the states. but my view is, we shouldn t be ripping up obamacare and starting over. we should be building on it. hours