Obama Slams Bernie Sanders For Failing Democratic Party

President Obama has slammed the Bernie Sanders campaign for sparking the downfall of the Democratic Party and causing Hillary Clinton to lose the recent election. During a town hall event with Vox Media, Obama blamed Sanders and his supporters for allowing the Republicans to rise up and destroy Obamacare. Zerohedge.com reports: During Sanders’ campaign for the presidential nomination, he proposed replacing Obamacare with a government-run single-payer health insurance system based on Medicare, the government plan for elderly and disabled Americans. “In the ‘dissatisfied’ column are a whole bunch of Bernie Sanders supporters who wanted a single-payer plan,” Obama said in the interview. “The problem is not that they think Obamacare is a failure. The problem is that they don’t think it went far enough and that it left too many people still uncovered,” Obama said. Ironically Sanders believes that Obama did not go far enough in finalizing the law which is viewed unfavorably by more Americans than those who have a favorable view of Obamacare. Michael Briggs, a spokesman for Sanders, agreed that many people would rather the government “take on the private insurance industry and the pharmaceutical companies” and play a bigger role in providing healthcare. “There are many millions [...]

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