US Senator Bernie Sanders has blasted President Donald Trump’s health care policies as they threaten insurance for millions of Americans, saying Trump’s statements about universal health coverage are filled with “blatant lies.”
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Sanders said Trump is seeking to eliminate Medicare, the popular government program providing health care to seniors and some with disabilities.
He said millions of Americans lack health coverage because Republicans oppose a “Medicare for all” proposed by him and some Democratic Party lawmakers in Congress.
Sanders, who ran for the Democratic nomination for US president in 2016, was responding to Trump’s op-ed in USA Today published Wednesday.
In the rare presidential op-ed, Trump claimed the proposal dubbed “Medicare for all” would “eviscerate” Medicare.
“In practice, the Democratic Party’s so-called Medicare for All would really be Medicare for None,” Trump…