Biden: Single-Payer ‘Is Not Working in Italy Right Now’ – IOTW Report

Biden: Single-Payer ‘Is Not Working in Italy Right Now’

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During Sunday’s CNN Democratic presidential debate, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden said that Medicare for all wouldn’t solve the coronavirus problem, cited Italy’s single-payer system, and said, “It doesn’t work there.”

Biden said, “[W]ith all due respect to 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. That would not solve the problem at all. We can take care of that right now by making sure that no one has to pay for treatment, period, because of the crisis, no one has to pay for whatever drugs are needed, period, because of the crisis, no one has to pay for hospitalization because of the crisis, period. That is a national emergency and that’s how it’s handled. It is not working in Italy right now, and they have a single-payer system.” watch

6 Comments on Biden: Single-Payer ‘Is Not Working in Italy Right Now’

  1. Somebody made a comment yesterday which I think makes a lot of sense. Most of those western European countries – you know, the ones with the highest coronavirus rates in the world – are socialist medicine. As my friend noted, the population appears to have a thought process of ‘the system takes care of it, so I don’t really have to think about what I should do.’ Contrast that with USA, where we are all telling each other the same things: don’t get too close to others, wash your hands, etc. As a more libertarian society we tend to take more responsibility for our actions and our health – and when it comes to being careful to not spread disease that approach works a lot better than ‘I got free healthcare’.

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  2. “The buffalo is an endangered species. We cannot continue hunting buffalo for their meat. This is why, for the good of the buffalo, we must switch to hunting bison instead.” – Joe Biden, aka Chief Speaks-With-No-Brain

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