Bernie Sanders: The Murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO ‘Is Totally Unacceptable, But...’

WELKER: “Is this the right time, in the wake of this horrific murder, to be talking about health care policy?”
Sanders: “Look, Elizabeth Warren obviously understands killing and murder and shooting somebody in the back is totally unacceptable. But what I think has happened in the last few months is that what you have seen rising up is people’s anger at a health insurance industry which denies people the health care that they desperately need while they make billions and billions of dollars in profit. So, killing anybody, shooting somebody in the back who was the father of two, is outrageous. And it’s unacceptable. Nobody, nobody should applaud it. I know Senator Warren did not. But I think what we need to ask ourselves when we talk about health care, is why we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people, why we have a life expectancy which is significantly lower than in other countries, why working-class people die 5 to 10 years shorter than the people on top. So, Kristen, I feel very strongly about this. And I think the time is long overdue for us to guarantee health care to every man, woman and child, especially at a time when we’re spending twice as much per capita on health care as the people of every other nation. The goal of health care is not to make drug companies and insurance companies phenomenally rich, it is to guarantee quality care to all of our people.”