Bernie Sanders Quotes

The two most dangerous words in the English language are not "nuclear war." They are "socialized medicine.

I am not in favor of implementing a Medicare-for-All, single payer healthcare system.

I am a Medicare-for-all public option proponent.

I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.

Socialized medicine ... forced its way into our political vocabulary.

If there is a Republican or a Libertarian or Green Party person that believes in Medicare for all, then that's our kind of person.

It is imperative that Democrats take a stand and embrace Medicare for All and other progressive policies that address the needs of millions of Americans.

I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.

The only people really enthusiastic about healthcare are Democrats.

There's no denying that if I were designing a health care system from scratch, I'd build a Medicare for All system.

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.

I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.

I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

... socialized medicine by the back door.

The one unifying principle of Republicans is to make sure that 30 million people don’t have health care.

Any Democrat worth their salt that doesn't unequivocally say Medicare-for-all is the way to go? To me, there's something wrong with them.

If Medicare today includes Medicare supplemental, why wouldn't Medicare for all include a Medicare supplement for all who want it?

Of all the liberal resentments during the Obama years, one of the sharpest has been the failure to secure a public insurance option as part of the Affordable Care Act.

I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!

People do not want that public option.

If there's ever a vote for single-payer, I'm a 'yes.' But there are lots of things we can do in the meantime.

They ought to be focused on saving healthcare. They ought to be focused on making sure we don't privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. That's where the Democrats ought to be.

The single-payer Medicare for All proposal is not only bad policy, but it's bad politics. It's bad politics for a very simple reason: More than half the country has private insurance and most of them like it.

I've endorsed 'Medicare for All' at the federal level. I do not believe a state can accomplish that on its own.

I know that we are supposed to believe that once voters learn the truth about medicare for all they are going to suddenly turn on it but it's not like the scary industry talking points are a secret.