Keith Ellison: “It's ridiculous that we are the only industrialized country who have never figured out how to do this. Every country in…”

“It's ridiculous that we are the only industrialized country who have never figured out how to do this. Every country in the industrialized world has a different plan. None of the plans are the same. Germany started in 1883. The Prime Minister at that point was worried about the social disruption and said, Let's give them some health care benefits. So they got started on this process, and it's been going since 1883, through two world wars, the German system. The German system is different than ours would be. The French system, the British system, the Canadian system. The Canadian system started in British Colombia in Saskatchewan, one of the central provinces of the country. Different circumstances. In British Colombia, the doctors said we can't take care of these old people in the hospitals. We have got to start a health insurance plan. So they started the BC health program. Saskatchewan, they had a socialist government in that province at that point.”