Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) issued a grim warning about America's health care system during an interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday.
"We have a broken health care system; everybody knows that," Sanders said. "And Trump is not wrong when he says the system is not working very well, but he is making it far worse. And honestly, as the former chair of the health committee, I worry very, very much that he could literally collapse the entire system."
Sanders' comments come at a time when Republicans and Democrats are negotiating over health care policy as part of the government shutdown. Republicans have proposed a continuing resolution to fund the government through the end of the year that maintains steep health care cuts implemented by Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill." Democrats are seeking to reverse those cuts.
"We don't have enough doctors right now," Sanders said. "Who in the world is going to become a doctor in the midst of all of this? We pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, for health care in general. Our life expectancy is lower than other major countries. So we have a system deeply in trouble. He is taking it to the verge of collapse."
