Joe Biden argued that universal healthcare wouldn't have stopped the spread of coronavirus: “With all due respect for Medicare for All, you have a single payer system in Italy. It doesn't work there. It has nothing to do with Medicare for All.” DemDebate
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders meet Sunday night in the Democratic primary's first one-on-one debate, as Biden threatens to open up a commanding lead for the nomination and with the nation struggles to contain the fast-moving coronavirus.
Biden called for expanded testing and hospital capacity, as well as dealing with the economic fallout with interest-free loans for small businesses. He urged voters to go to his website, but didn’t drill into details of his plan. “I'm not shaking hands. Joe and I did not shake hands,” Sanders said of their pre-debate elbow bump. Sanders said he’s also been careful about the people with whom he’s interacting.
“That is not a system that is prepared to provide healthcare to all people. In a good year without the epidemic, we're losing up to 60,000 people who die every year because they don't get to a doctor on time. It's clear this crisis is only making a bad situation worse,” he added. Sanders said the “ebola crisis, in my view, exposes the dysfunctionality of the health care system” and the “ebola crisis is, also, I think, exposing the cruelty and the unjustness of our economy.”
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