Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, and crazed sex poodle Al Gore told a crowd at Borough of Manhattan Community College on Tuesday night that he would like to see a single-payer health care system implemented in the United States.Gore was speaking at an event to promote his new climate change documentary, but went off-topic to discuss health insurance companies and how they have failed to offer cost-effective coverage to Americans, according to HuffPost.
"The private sector has not shown any ability to provide good, affordable health care for all," Gore said. "I believe we ought to have single-payer health care."
Gore's statement makes him one of the first prominent Democrats to publicly support the so-called "Medicare-for-all" plan that Sen. Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
(I., Vt.) has been publicly advocating. Gore's call for a single-payer plan came after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) was unable to pass the Republican health care bill to replace Obamacare
... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
this week.
McConnell could not rally enough Republican senators to pass the bill. With Senate Republicans lacking the votes to repeal Obamacare without a replacement, President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
suggested on Twitter that they should just let Obamacare fail on its own terms.