“Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege”

As the public option is starting to lose fervor in Washington, one Senator is still pushing to support the cause. Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont that is a politician with open Socialist views, thinks that single-payer system would work if states were given the opportunity to try it out.

I think he sums it up best in this video by saying, "Our job is not to protect the private health insurance companies. It is to provide quality, cost-effective health-care to the American people."

Recently his contingency, Vermont, made it publicly known that they are ready to try out “Medicare-for-All publicly financed health care system in their state.” They feel that health care is a “human right” and healthcare should be based on “medical need” rather than “corporate greed.”

Individual states should have the right pass and live by laws that they deem right for their state. State laws legalizing marijuana and gay marriage were passed by individual states, and I don't see why a public health care system could be implemented by individual states. This could be the true test to see if the public option will succeed or fail. The people of Vermont have spoken, not it is up to the leaders in Washington to decide.