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SANDERS let me bring you into this car. Okay question . May question this way Senator Sanders you describe your campaign including your plans for Medicare for all as a political revolution. Yes President Obama explicitly said the country is quote less revolutionary than it is interested in improvement . The average American doesn't think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it. End quote. Is President Obama wrong. Well we start. We don't have to tear down the system but we do have to do what the American people want. And the American people understand today that the current health care system is not only cruel it is dysfunctional. Now you tell me how we have a system in which we spend twice as much as do the people of any other country. And yet we've got eighty seven million uninsured underinsured. In some cases we pay 10 times more for prescription drugs as do the people of Canada or other countries . Five hundred thousand people go bankrupt because of medically related issues. They come down with cancer. And that's a reason to go bankrupt. Now some of the people up here think that we should not take on the insurance industry . We should not take on the pharmaceutical industry. But you know what. If you think back to FDR and if you think back to JFK and Harry Truman and Barack Obama as a matter of fact people have been talking about health care for all. Well you know what. I think now is the time. And in the first week of my administration we will introduce Medicare for all Medicare for all. That means no deductibles no copayments no out-of-pocket expenses. So that's where we gotta go. Thank you Senator Sanders. Vice President Biden. You know we can do this without charging people raising 30 40 trillion dollars. The fact is that right now the vast majority of Democrats do not support Medicare for all. It couldn't pass the United States Senate right now with Democrats. It couldn't pass the House . Nancy Pelosi is one of those people who then thinks makes sense . We should build on Obamacare provide the plan I put forward before anybody in here adding a Medicare option in that plan and not make people choose. Allow people to choose. I should say if you go the route of my two friends and my right and my left you have to give up your private insurance. 160 million people like their private insurance. And if they don't like it they can buy into a Medicare like proposal in my plan. Drug prices go down. Premiums go down across the board. But here's the deal. They get to choose . I trust the American people to make a judgment what they believe is in their interests and not demand of them. What the insurance companies they want. No no competition. And my friends say you have to only go. Medicare for all .