Democracy 2020 Digest: Sanders cites coronavirus to renew ‘Medicare-for-all’ push

Democracy 2020 Digest: Sanders cites coronavirus to renew ‘Medicare-for-all’ push



Sen. Bernie Sanders stresses that due to the coronavirus outbreak, the nation’s facing an emergency “on a scale of a major war” and grimly warned that “the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experienced in World War II.” But the Democratic presidential candidate also used a speech on combating the pandemic to once again push for his top progressive proposal – a government-run Medicare-for-all health care system.