by Ian Hanchett at Breitbart
On Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” on Monday, host Jon Stewart stated that Democrats are in a position where “we’ve shut down the government to protect subsidies for an insurance marketplace that funnels $800 billion a year into the pockets of all these insurance companies.”
Stewart asked, “[W]hat Democrats find themselves in a place is, we’ve shut down the government to protect subsidies for an insurance marketplace that funnels $800 billion a year into the pockets of all these insurance companies. Have Democrats boxed themselves into a corner fighting for a system that, ultimately, to get to the thing you want, that I think the American people want, they’re going to have to abandon?”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) responded, “Yes.” And stated that there will be dire consequences to ending the subsidies, the healthcare system is the right one to defend for today, and the right move long-term is to move to single-payer because the current system is “designed to make huge profits for the insurance companies and the drug companies, period.”
After the discussion turned to college education, Stewart said,…
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