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Hear the Bern

49 - In This Together (w/ Jeffrey Sachs & George Gardner III)

Hear the Bern

Bernie 2020

News Commentary, News, , Politics

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

As COVID-19 reshapes American life in unprecedented ways, Briahna examines how Bernie's health care and housing proposals would help protect American workers during a global pandemic. In two interviews recorded late last week, Briahna talks to professor Jeffrey Sachs about how Medicare for All would do much to prepare the U.S. for outbreaks like COVID-19 and to George Gardner III, supervising attorney at the Housing Rights Unit of Legal Services NYC, about Bernie's call for a moratorium on housing evictions. Jeffrey Sachs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffdsachs (https://twitter.com/jeffdsachs) George on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ggiii (https://twitter.com/ggiii)

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0:00.0

Now here's something that helps explain the difference between the testing

0:04.4

situation in South Korea and the US. The South Korea, like European countries

0:08.6

in Canada, has a universal single-payer insurance and that means that it's easier to mobilize and also people

0:16.1

know what to do there is pretty much one answer for how to get testing.

0:20.2

The US is a patchwork of countless different systems and so you can't say here's exactly the steps that every American should take in order to get tested.

0:29.0

And the other thing, Elizabeth, of course, is government officials keep saying Americans should check

0:33.7

in with their primary care physician one quarter of the American people according

0:37.4

to a study by the journal in the journal of American Medical Association one quarter

0:40.8

the American people don't have a primary care position. And Jake, I would bet that many primary care physicians even if you have one

0:46.2

if you call them and they would say. Exit polls from Mississippi show that 62% of Democratic primary voters in that state

0:57.2

support Medicare for all. In fact, in every single one of the 20 states that have voted so far, a majority of voters

1:07.8

have preferred a, quote, single government plan for all to private insurance. Over and over again, polls from

1:16.2

across the country show that health care is a top issue for voters and that

1:21.2

Bernie is the most trusted candidate on health care.

1:25.0

But despite that, many voters still chose Joe Biden last Tuesday.

1:29.8

So what gives?

1:32.0

Well, it could be because nearly 30% of voters think that Joe Biden

1:37.8

supports Medicare for all. In Wisconsin, that number is as high as 37%, and another 26% of Wisconsinites simply aren't

1:49.2

sure.

1:50.2

It's a similar story all across America, which is why it's so important for us to

1:56.3

clarify what Joe Biden does and doesn't stand for. To be clear, Joe Biden doesn't stand for to be clear,

2:03.0

Joe Biden doesn't support Medicare for all.

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