We have just deconstructed our public services, public health being chief among them.

On top of that, we are now facing a pandemic at one of the most vulnerable moments

of our economic and political existence.

Welcome to deconstructed. I'm Mady Hassan. As millions of Americans are laid off and lose their

healthcare, is there an obvious and readily available solution that a lot of the political and media

elite are missing? Bernie's put this issue on the map and I think people will continue to fight

for it regardless. It's not going anywhere. I think this is the moment where we continue to drive

because COVID-19 has made the case for us. That's my guest today, Abdul El Sayyid, physician,

politician, author and advocate of single-payer healthcare. Nearly 50,000 coronavirus deaths and 22

million unemployed Americans later, is it now finally time to guarantee Medicare for all?

Remember, however, the past year we were told again and again, even by top Democrats during

the presidential primaries? How Americans love their private health insurance, love their

employer-sponsored plan, and it shouldn't be taken away from them. 149 million Americans will no

longer be able to have their current insurance. I don't think that's a bold idea. I think it's a

bad idea. If you go the route of my two friends and my right and my left, you have to give up your

private insurance. 160 million people like their private insurance. We should deal with the tragedy

beyond insurance and give everyone health care is all right. But why do we have to be the party of

taking something away from people? I don't understand why you believe the only way to deliver

affordable coverage to everybody is to obliterate private plans. Kicking 150 million Americans off

of their insurance, well, it turns out that it's not Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren or Medicare

for all that's getting Americans kicked off their beloved private health care plans. It's the

coronavirus, or at least the mass unemployment that's being caused by this pandemic and the federal

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