Quick Guide to Bernie Sanders’ Far-Left Radical Policy Proposals

Bernie Sanders is a self-described socialist who advocates for free healthcare for illegal immigrants, higher taxes and eliminating employer-provided health insurance plans. Here is your quick guide to Sanders’ radical far-left socialist policies: 

Michigan is the birthplace of the middle-class American Dream and Bernie Sanders wants to replace it with free healthcare for illegal immigrants, higher taxes and eventually all-out socialism. Five million Michiganders would lose their employer-provided health insurance plans under Sanders’ Medicare for All proposal. This is a battle-ground to stop radical policies that eliminate individual freedom and educate voters about their ramifications. – Tori Sachs, executive director of Michigan Rising Action

SANDERS’ HEALTH CARE PROPOSAL WILL ELIMINATE ALL EMPLOYER-PROVIDED HEALTH CARE PLANS

During the June 2019 Democratic Debate, Sanders said: We Have Got To Pass A Medicare For All Single-Payer System.

On April 10, 2019, Sanders Introduced S.1129, The Medicare For All Act of 2019. 

The Medicare For All Act of 2019 would permit private health insurers and employers to only offer coverage which is supplemental and not duplicative of benefits provided by the program. 

The bill prohibits cost-sharing (e.g., deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments) and other charges for covered services, with the exception of prescription drugs. Additionally, private health insurers and employers may only offer coverage that is supplemental to, and not duplicative of, benefits provided under the program.

Many union workers really love their health benefits. That’s a problem for Bernie Sanders: 

Sen. Bernie Sanders is arguing that union workers would still come out ahead under “Medicare for All,” which would shift all Americans into a government-run plan.

FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

During the July 2019, Democratic Primary Debate, Sanders raised his hand when asked if his health care plan would cover undocumented immigrants.

THE JOB-KILLING & HIGH TAXING GREEN NEW DEAL

Bernie Sanders’s ‘Green New Deal’: A $16 Trillion Climate Plan: the most expensive proposal from the field of Democratic presidential candidates.

The American Action Forum estimates that between 2020 and 2029, the energy and environmental components of the Green New Deal would cost $8.3 trillion to $12.3 trillion, or $52,000 to $72,000 per household. The total Green New Deal program, including the jobs and “social justice” policies, would cost $51.1 trillion to $92.9 trillion, or $316,010 to $419,010 per household.

In Michigan alone, the Green New Deal would put 159,100 jobs at risk and raise energy costs by $278 per month.