Sen. Bernie Sanders (Socialist-Vt.) has published what sounds like a campaign platform in the webpages of The Huffington Post, pledging to move policy debates sharply to the left in 2015.
One of the agenda items on which Sanders opines is health care, and he makes no mention of the significant reform already undertaken by the Obama administration.
“We will continue the fight to have the United States join the rest of the industrialized world in understanding that health care is a human right of all people, not a privilege. We will end the current dysfunctional system in which 40 million Americans remain uninsured, and tens of millions more are underinsured,” he writes. “Private insurance companies and drug companies should not be making huge profits which result in the United States spending almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation with outcomes that are often not as good.”
Sanders also writes about wealth inequality, THE KOCH BROTHERS, “fair share” tax burdens, infrastructure spending, universal education, and anthropogenic climate change.
“By and large, poll after poll shows that the American people support a progressive agenda that addresses income and wealth inequality, that creates the millions of jobs we desperately need, that raises the minimum wage, that ends pay discrimination against women, and that makes sure all Americans can get the quality education they need,” the potential challenger to Hillary Clinton continues.
Sanders, currently serving his second term in the Senate, has amassed a loud buzz for a potential White House run in 2016. He has said he will announce his decision by March.
