This is the Tom Hartman program.

Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you and I wanted to talk about the coronavirus and the need for a national health care system and we'll

also get into the economy and pretty much you know anything else you want to talk about

today there's there's a lot going out in the news people b Budujahz has pulled out of the race.

And the speculation that I'm seeing

is that he's going to endorse Joe Biden, presumably

on the idea that if, well, mean who knows but my personal guess would be

I'll endorse you Joe Biden you make me defense secretary and I think Pete

Budajevj actually make a very good defense secretary.

But who knows?

We'll see.

But as the coronavirus is spreading around the world, we find ourselves, the United States

finds ourselves as literally the only country in the world without a national health

care system that can confront it. I mean ever since Franklin Roosevelt first

proposed a national single-payer health care system, actually it was Teddy

Roosevelt who first proposed, he was a Republican, the first Democrat to propose. it was And then

L.B.J. started the process with Medicare and Medicaid.

And Robert Ball, the guy who wrote the Medicare law,

said explicitly,

clearly unambiguously, it's in my book

Rebooting the American Dream, the whole long thing about it

where Robert Ball said we designed Medicare to be scalable.

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