Bernie has a podcast. It's long, it's tedious, and it's incredibly boring. It's really more an endurance test than a radio show. I’m pretty sure it was one of thing things the US Army played at ear-splitting volumes to drive Noriega out of the Vatican embassy back in '89.
I might be wrong about that last point, but the rest is dead-on. Bernie's podcast is awful.
Recently, he decided it would be a good idea top interview a Canadian doctor about the Great White North's healthcare system. It is, after all, Bernie's fever-dream to enact the same scheme here in the United States.
If he was hoping she would debunk those "lies" and "half-truths" about horrible wait times north of the border, he was surely disappointed.
Watch, as she details the "unacceptable" wait times Canadians must endure:
Canadian doctor tells Bernie Sanders about year-long waiting times for non-urgent care
The response above raises a couple of big questions.
The first one is: Who decides what constitutes a "serious" or "urgent" condition? Earlier today, I told you about the NHS, where "urgent" might simply be another way of saying "better off dead." Do we really trust the government - which will, without question, be desperate to downplay the severity of illnesses to minimize cost?
The second is: Bernie's guest suggests that "organizing the delivery system" is the problem, not the fact that government (taxpayers) pays for it. Ask yourself, do you trust the U.S. government - a body that ran the VA, the post office, and social security straight into the ground - to have an "organized delivery system" that will work for healthcare?
Any thinking person who knows the history of federal organization, planning, and implementation in the United States should conclude that this doctor has just offered a dismal best-case scenario for Americans under single-payer.
The reality will probably far worse. After all, Bernie famously thinks "breadlines are a good thing," so why should healthcare be any different?
