Bernie Sanders and his supporters want government in everything, including your healthcare. Not even Hillary Clinton wants the government to make healthcare decisions for you (as she accidentally admitted in the third presidential debate).
Milton Friedman, the legendary free market economist, on the other hand, wants private, free market, voluntary healthcare available for all Americans. Everyone in the U.S. has seen how the healthcare system has metastasized since the government intervened in the 1960s and 1970s. It has gotten more expensive, it has become more bureaucratic and it has been engulfed in scandal.
Here is a video that compares Friedman’s ideas on healthcare to Sanders’s views on healthcare:
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