Bernie Sanders isn't hedging AT ALL on 'Medicare For All' | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
In 2016, when Bernie Sanders proposed the idea of getting rid of all private health care insurance in favor of a national system run by the federal government, Hillary Clinton repeatedly mocked both him and the idea."I want you to understand why I am fighting so hard for the Affordable Care Act," Clinton said in Iowa in late January 2016."I don't want it repealed, I don't want us to be thrown back into a terrible, terrible national debate.
No. What they will -- what will change in their plans is the color of their card. So instead of having a Blue Cross Blue Shield card, instead of having a UnitedHealth Insurance card, they're going to have a Medicare card. That Medicare card will allow them, Wolf, to go to any doctor that they want. If they're going to the doctor, they're happy. Any hospital they want.But you know what else? They're not going to be paying any private insurance premiums.