Bernie Sanders pleads with Brits: ‘Don’t have a look at the American mannequin of healthcare’

US Senator Bernie Sanders has urged Britain not to have a look at the American mannequin of healthcare, throughout a go to to the UK, urging politicians as an alternative to ‘construct on what you might have and enhance on what you might have’.

Talking to Andrew Marr on LBC, Sanders warned that privatisation of healthcare and a rising function for insurance coverage firms was not going to make the scenario higher and that healthcare is a ‘human proper’.

Contrasting the scenario of the UK with that of the US he stated: “We most likely spend in the US twice as a lot per particular person on healthcare. We spend $13,000 for each man, lady and little one, an outrageous sum of cash and but we find yourself with 85 million people who find themselves uninsured or underinsured whereas the insurance coverage firms make billions and billions of {dollars}.

“The perform of the American healthcare system, one thing which you shouldn’t emulate right here, is to make the insurance coverage firms and the drug firms phenomenally wealthy.

“The aim must be, is how in a value efficient manner, folks discover high quality healthcare to all folks as a human proper, that’s the aim and it’s loads cheaper than permitting the insurance coverage firms to become involved with the intention to revenue off the system”.

Sanders was requested if he noticed a threat of Britain following the American mannequin. He added: “Don’t have a look at the American mannequin, please don’t. Construct on what you might have, enhance on what you might have. Healthcare is a human proper that’s what it’s and that was established right here in 1948.

“I perceive your system has issues, take care of these issues, however don’t suppose insurance coverage firms and privatisations will make the scenario higher, they are going to solely make it a lot worse.”

Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead

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