This week, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled his Medicare-for-all legislation with nearly half of the Democrat Senate roster behind him. Sanders was not always in favor of blanket coverage programs, warning in a 1987 interview that a similar proposal presented this week, would bankrupt the United States.

FLASHBACK: Bernie Sanders in 1987 said “If we expanded Medicaid to everybody…we would bankrupt the nation.” pic.twitter.com/RrNvrqCL2Q — Joshua Dov Caplan (@joshdcaplan) September 14, 2017

NTK Network reports:

When Sanders was mayor of Burlington, he filmed a show called “Bernie Speaks with the Community.” During one 1987 episode about the American health care system, he said that giving everyone Medicaid for all would be too much of a financial burden for the United States to bear. “One of the points that we understand and I think was reinforced when we went to Canada,” Sanders told Dr. Miltion Terris, “Number one, you want to guarantee that all people have access to healthcare as you do in Canada.” TRENDING: Black Lives Matter Activist Wearing 'Justice for Breonna Taylor' Shirt Walked into a Louisville Bar and Murdered Three People Sanders continued, doubting that America’s system could handle such a change. “But I think what we understand is that unless we change the funding system and the control mechanism in this country to do that,” he said. “For example, if we expanded Medicaid [to] everybody. Give everybody a Medicaid card – we would be spending such an astronomical sum of money that, you know, we would bankrupt the nation.”

This week, Sen. Sanders unveiled his “Medicare-for-all legislation.”

The Gateway Pundit has previously reported on the falsehoods pushed by the lawmaker.

At a “Care Not Cuts” rally in July, Senator Bernie Sanders compared the GOP health care plan to one of the worst things to ever occur on American soil — 9/11.

“Now obviously nobody can predict exactly how many people will die if they lose their coverage. Nobody can make that prediction,” Sanders said to rally goers. “But what experts at the Harvard School of Public Health estimate, is that if 23 million Americans were to be thrown off the insurance they currently have…up to 28,000 Americans every single year could die.”

“That is nine times more than the tragic losses of we suffered on 9/11, every single year,” Sanders said.

The Dominion Post provided details on the event:

Before Sanders took the stage, four locals spoke about how the Affordable Care Act had impacted their lives. Emily Chilko, an addiction counselor at Chestnut Ridge, said the ACA made getting treatment easier. Prior to the bill, many drug users seeking treatment were turned away simply for not being poor enough to qualify for Medicaid or because their insurance did not cover addiction treatment. “When the ACA passed, it was like a life preserver in the middle of the opioid crisis,” Chilko said. Finally, Sanders himself came on stage and was greeted with thunderous applause. He began his speech by thanking everyone for coming out and thanking the groups that made this rally possible, including the Mountaineers for Progress.

In January, the Democrats held a press conference to defend the failed Obamacare debacle.

Obamacare premiums for 2017 increased an average of 22% in the US.

Here are the average increase in premiums in battleground states.

Ohio: 13.12% increase

Florida: 17.40% increase

Pennsylvania: 32.5% increase

Nevada: 11.74% increase

Maine: 21.24% increase

New Hampshire: 12.44% increase

Virginia: 21.68% increase

North Carolina: 24.30% increase

Iowa: 20.46% increase

Michigan: 16.06% increase

Wisconsin: 20.39% increase

Most of these states Democrats lost.

During the presser this morning wild-eyed Socialist Bernie Sanders took the podium and claimed Republicans and Trump were planning on cutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

As the FOX Business Network hosts later pointed out – Trump promised exactly the opposite during his campaign.

Via Varney and Co.: