"Medicare for All" is the critical platform upon which Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is pitching his tent in this year's 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination campaign (oh, as well as free college, student debt writeoffs, and the green new deal).

Sanders ceaselessly shrugs off his critics that enacting such a universal healthcare system would be prohibitively expensive (not to say liberty-destroying) for a 'free nation'.

All of which raises the question - what's changed since 1987 when the then mayor of Burlington explained that giving everyone Medicaid for all would be too much of a financial burden for the United States to bear.

Poster Comment:

He can pass legislation now requiring hospitals, clinics and doctors to publish a menu of prices. He can pass legislation now banning MSG and Bisphenol from food and formaldehyde from cosmetics to reduce medical costs. If this does not happen before NHS is passed, what makes you think it will happen after NHS?