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During a campaign event on Saturday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was asked to weigh in on fellow White House hopeful Pete Buttigieg’s health care proposal, reports USA Today.
Buttigieg is proposing a public option health care system, which would give Americans a choice between purchasing private or government-run health insurance. According to Sanders, such a plan is unworkable, because the government system would be overwhelmed with the most expensive patients.
“When you talk about having a system where you’re going to have private insurance and you’re going to have (a public) option going in,” the Vermont Senator said, “the rich and the healthy will go into private insurance, the poor and the sick will go into Medicare and cost that system an enormous amount of money.”
“So it’s a failed idea in my view,” he opined.