Bernie Sanders: “I strongly support the SCHIP program. I happen to believe it is a disgrace that the United States of America remains the…”

“I strongly support the SCHIP program. I happen to believe it is a disgrace that the United States of America remains the only country in the industrialized world which today does not guarantee health care to all of its people. I just came back the other day from a trip to Costa Rica, and this small, poor country manages to cover all of its people. Yet, in our country, we have 47 million Americans who have no health insurance, and we have some 9 million children who have no health insurance. I always find it ironic that the American people seem to get from the White House what they don't want, and they don't get what they do want. The American people want to end the war in Iraq as soon as possible, a war which will soon be costing us, if you can believe it, $750 billion--three-quarters of $1 trillion--which even in Washington is a lot of money. For the war in Iraq, for Halliburton contracts, we seem to have an endless supply of money. The American people don't want it, but that is what they are getting. On the other hand, the American people do want health insurance for their children.”