Powerful. Bernie Sanders sets Rand Paul straight on the right to Healthcare

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20. Thanks for posting.

No one would expect a doctor to work without pay.

The idea of single payer medicine is that the doctor always gets paid because all of hisp or her patients have insurance and therefore the ability to pay.

Rand Paul is completely mistaken as to how single payer insurance works. The doctors in systems with single payer insurance are guaranteed to be paid for the patients they care for. That is the opposite of our current system in which doctors and hospitals must often treat a patient who is poor and has no insurance.

Rand Paul does not know what he is talking about even when he is supposedly talking about his own profession.

The point in single payer is to make sure that doctors can be paid. Of course, even with single payer insurance, doctors do not have to care for patients who for example do not follow their advice. Most of them try anyway. But as a patient in a country with single payer insurance, I was once fired by a doctor who gave me medicine that caused me serious side effects. He wanted me to take it anyway. I went to a different doctor and things worked out.