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Democratic would-be presidential nominee Bernie Sanders likes the Hungarian healthcare system
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He said in a tweet that their program to create a universal healthcare system in the United States is called crazy by many people there, but it is the reality in Hungary and several other countries.
According to Index, Bernie Sanders is the informal leader of the left-wing of the Democratic Party and has a very good chance of becoming the nominee of the party in the 2020 presidential election. Currently, he is only one delegate behind his main opponent, Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
One of Mr Sanders’s main promises in the election campaign is to introduce a universal healthcare system accessible for all Americans and funded by the state. Currently, the United States does not have such a system, andÂ
Republicans think that such ideas are crazy
because they undermine the freedom of competition between the different private insurance companies. Index says that in the USA, only people above 65 receive state-funded healthcare treatment (the so-called Medicare), and Sanders would like to expand that system to every American citizen. Besides, there is a separate system for low-income individuals, the so-called Medicaid, and veterans receive state-funded healthcare as well.
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The left-wing of the Democratic Party, led by Sanders, says that there are
millions of Americans who do not receive proper healthcare, or if they do, that is very expensive for them.
Mr Sanders is delusional