On Friday, Socialist Senator and 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders admitted that his plan for Medicare for All would cover the 11 million illegal aliens in the United States.
“We’re gonna … create a Medicare for All health care system which guarantees health care to every man, woman, and child,” Sanders said on Friday. “We will organize the American people around the idea that all people in this country have the right to health care.”
The comments made by Sanders were made at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials’ presidential candidate forum. The moderator asked the socialist if the plan would apply to illegal aliens.
“Absolutely, absolutely,” Sanders replied. “When I talk about health care being a human right, last time I heard that undocumented people are human beings as well.”
This isn’t the only outlandish plan that Sanders has recently unveiled.
On Monday, the socialist will release a proposal that will eliminate all $1.6 trillion of American student debt.
Check out what Fox News reported:
The Democratic presidential candidate’s new proposal calls for the federal government to wipe clean the student debt held by 45 million Americans, including all private and graduate school debt, The Washington Post reported. The proposal package also includes making public universities, community colleges and trade schools tuition-free.
Sanders reportedly plans to pay for the lofty proposal with a tax on Wall Street, which his campaign says will generate more than $2 trillion over 10 years. The tax would focus on financial transactions, the report said, such as a 0.5 percent tax on stock transactions and a 0.1 percent tax on bonds.
Sanders on Monday will join Rep. Ilhan Omar, who will introduce legislation in the House to eliminate all student debt in the United States. They will be joined by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
“This is truly a revolutionary proposal,” said Sanders said in a statement, according to the Post. “In a generation hard hit by the Wall Street crash of 2008, it forgives all student debt and ends the absurdity of sentencing an entire generation to a lifetime of debt for the ‘crime’ of getting a college education.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, another 2020 hopeful, announced in April a plan to cancel existing student loan debt for millions of Americans. Under Warren’s plan, each person’s student debt would get a relief of $50,000 if household income is up to $100,000. Higher incomes would also be entitled to massive debt reductions, while only those households with earnings of over $250,000 would get no student debt reduction.
“For example, a person with household income of $130,000 gets $40,000 in cancellation [of student debt], while a person with household income of $160,000 gets $30,000 in cancellation,” Warren in a blog post at the time.
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