Sen. Bernie Sanders: Why is the US the only country that doesn't provide health care to everyone?

I want to know why the US is the only major country on earth that doesn't provide health care to all of its people. pic.twitter.com/eVhrfInzkn

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) August 9, 2015

@charlescwcooke Being a lifetime politician, able to use a capitalist system to fuel your socialist sermon. @SenSanders

— Scott (@_crookedcrosses) August 9, 2015

@SenSanders You truly don't know why? You have been in leadership for how many years? And now you want to become POTUS! !!!

— Lack land (@lackland50) August 9, 2015

I want to know how you got to this age with such an upside-down conception of America’s constitutional arrangement. https://t.co/whWTLapWhu

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) August 9, 2015

@SenSanders cause if the founders wanted that to be a legitimate function of government, they would have written it into the constitution.

— Aaron Wolf (@AaronWolf1) August 9, 2015

@MangyLover @charlescwcooke @SenSanders Because our system makes the admittedly-optimistic assertion that you can take care of yourself.

— Dan (@Maverick_SS_49) August 9, 2015

@Maverick_SS_49 @MangyLover It also presumes that the national government has enumerated powers, the states police powers.

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) August 9, 2015

@charlescwcooke @MangyLover Unfortunately, Sanders thinks "enumerated powers" equals "magic wish granting genie".

— Dan (@Maverick_SS_49) August 9, 2015

@Maverick_SS_49 @MangyLover Right. “But general welfare!”

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) August 9, 2015

@charlescwcooke @MangyLover Yes, funny that General Welfare. Somehow he always seems to be complicit in the rise of Major Disaster.

— Dan (@Maverick_SS_49) August 9, 2015

@charlescwcooke And what does that say about the voters — the Americans — who have repeatedly elected him? Matter of (mis)education.

— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) August 9, 2015

@charlescwcooke Tons of hallucinogens in the 60s?

— Neva (@pipandbaby) August 9, 2015

@charlescwcooke never underestimate the power of denial. It is the realm where all socialists exist, their ideas don't survive elsewhere

— John Banner (@LittleDawg1410) August 9, 2015

@SenSanders because of the greedy top 1%.

— Nick_Zen (@Nick_Zen) August 9, 2015

@SenSanders Because we're not a socialist nation, Bernie! Not as founded, anyway. https://t.co/gPIfbRmy2X

— D. McAllister (@McAllisterDen) August 9, 2015

@SenSanders Because the United States is not based on Marxist principles of controlling people.

— Benghazi Greg (@Gregory__Adams) August 9, 2015

@SenSanders Dear Bernie, if all of us healthcare workers left the workforce, where would you get your "free" healthcare?Not a right…

— Fountain_o'Youth (@jasonsmook) August 9, 2015

Hi @SenSanders It's now mandated by law. Remember? You goofy bastard.

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 9, 2015

@SenSanders Uh, because Obamacare is a failure?

— woodstockdave (@woodstockdave) August 9, 2015

@SenSanders isn't that what Obama care was supposed to do? How'd that work out again?

— Josh Dory (@joshdory) August 9, 2015

@SenSanders Perhaps you missed the signing ceremony for #ACA a few years ago. Elderly people are sometimes forgetful.

— Me in Jersey (@Me_In_Jersey) August 9, 2015

@SenSanders because we are the only country founded on principle of Liberty. People have options here. It's why our ancestors migrated.

— Joe N-ski (@JediOnWelfare) August 9, 2015

@SenSanders Because there's a fundamental misconception of the purpose of government.

— Andrea James (@dreamyaj) August 9, 2015

@SenSanders Because that's not the role of the federal government under our system. It's also the reason that we're a successful country.

— Vox Populi (@vpopul) August 9, 2015