But what those attacks conveniently omitted is the fact that in their attempt to discredit single-payer, the monolithic Kochs accidentally made a case for it.
Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders was quick to point out:
Let me thank the Koch brothers, of all people, for sponsoring a study that shows that Medicare- for-All would save the American people $2 trillion dollars. I suspect that that is not what the Koch brothers intended to do, but that is what's in the study of the Mercatus Center. At a time when the United States spends far more per capita on healthcare than any other country on Earth, almost 18 percent of our GDP, a Medicare-or-All healthcare system would save the average family significant sums of money.
Even a Fox News poll (yes, Fox News) shows 72% of voters favor single-payer healthcare, or, as Fox puts it "government-run" healthcare.
The time has come for us to join the rest of our capitalist allies unafraid of dabbling in a little Democratic Socialism.
As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said:
This country has socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.
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