It’s time to guarantee healthcare to all Americans as a human right | Bernie Sanders

It is time to end the international embarrassment of the US being the only major country that does not guarantee healthcare

Let's be clear. The current healthcare system in the United States is totally broken, dysfunctional and cruel. It is a system which spends twice as much per capita as any other major country, while 85 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured, one out of four Americans cannot afford the cost of the prescription drugs their doctors prescribe, and where over 60,000 die each year because they don't get to a doctor on time.

It is a system in which our life expectancy is lower than almost all other major countries and is actually declining, a system in which working class and low-income Americans die at least ten years younger than wealthier Americans.

Bernie Sanders is a US Senator and the ranking member of the Senate budget committee. He represents the state of Vermont