“Should be a must” and “it's no time for any other kind of B.S.” That was the reaction from CNN Prime Time host Chris Cuomo when Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was pitching his socialist Medicare for All plan as the solution to the coronavirus (COVID-19 of Wuhan Virus) outbreak. Cuomo was apparently saying all the right things because it left the Senator visibly pleased and drew praise from the staunch socialist.
In the midst of their Monday night interview about the coronavirus and the campaign, Sanders launched into one of his canned lines about America being the only “major country not to guarantee health care to all” and how that was hurting the response to the coronavirus:
Think about somebody watching this program right now who may be feverish, who may be having a cough, may be saying, “God, do I have the coronavirus? But I can't afford to go to a doctor, I can’t afford the couple hundred bucks it may cost me.” Think about a worker who’s making 13, 15 bucks an hour who doesn't have any paid medical leave, who has to go to work tomorrow because if he or she doesn't go to work they don't have the income to take care of their family.
So, one of the proposals that we have made is that in this movement, while we moved toward Medicare for all, every worker in America should be able to go to a doctor when you’re sick, right now, to make sure that you get the testing that you need to determine whether or not you are sick.
“Should be a must,” Cuomo blurted out while Sanders was still speaking. “Should be a must. And if you’re sick and you have to stay home, they should pay you for it,” he continued. Sanders immediately praised his host: “You got it.”
Cuomo didn’t stop there. He further demanded that “if that winds up being that the federal government has to get involved and pick up the tab.”
He even threw in an abbreviated expletive. “I mean, it's no time for any other kind of B.S. If you want people to stay home because they’re being quarantined, the employer’s got to step up. If you want them to get tested you’ve got to make sure the testing is being picked up. There's no time for any other kind of politics,” he declared.
“That’s right. That's exactly right, Chris,” Sanders lauded as Cuomo shifted to discussing Sanders’ age and the threat from the virus.
While these two were exploiting the situation to push for socialist policies, the facts of the matter proved that socialized medicine hasn’t stood a chance against the coronavirus. Communist China, the origin country of the disease, has a health-care-for-all system and the virus raged out of control with only authoritarian brutalization apparently slowing it.
Italy also has a nationally controlled health care system and ended up executing the shocking move of locking down the entire country because they’re system was failing so badly.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time
March 9, 2020
9:06:30 p.m. Eastern(…)
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT): So we have to do a number of things. One of the things, Chris – and I know you and I have discussed this in different contexts in the past – think about a health care today in with 87 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured. We're the only country – major country not to guarantee health care to all.
Think about somebody watching this program right now who may be feverish, who may be having a cough, may be saying, “God, do I have the coronavirus? But I can't afford to go to a doctor, I can’t afford the couple hundred bucks it may cost me.” Think about a worker who’s making 13, 15 bucks an hour who doesn't have any paid medical leave, who has to go to work tomorrow because if he or she doesn't go to work they don't have the income to take care of their family.
So, one of the proposals that we have made is that in this movement, while we moved toward Medicare for all, every worker in America should be able to go to a doctor when you’re sick, right now, to make sure that you get the testing that you need to determine whether or not you are sick.
CUOMO: Should be a must.
SANDERS: Every worker who is sick -- that's right.
CUOMO: Should be a must.
SANDERS: Every worker who is sick -
CUOMO: And if you’re sick and you have to stay home, they should pay you for it.
SANDERS: You got it.
CUOMO: And if that winds up being that the federal government has to get involved and pick up the tab. I mean, it's no time for any other kind of B.S. If you want people to stay home because they’re being quarantined, the employer’s got to step up. If you want them to get tested—
SANDERS: That’s right.
CUOMO: -- you’ve got to make sure the testing is being picked up. There's no time for any other kind of politics.
SANDERS: That's exactly right, Chris.
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