Bernie Sanders says Canadian health care system a ‘strong example’ for U.S.

By The Canadian Press

U.S Sen. Bernie Sanders says Canada’s healthcare system is an innovative and strong example that the U.S. can learn from.

The former presidential hopeful was speaking at an event held by the University of Toronto, which sold out within seconds of tickets being released online.

Sanders, who ran an unsuccessful campaign to become the Democratic nominee for president in 2016, has been in Canada for the past week to learn more about how Canada’s universal healthcare system works.

The socialist senator introduced a bill last month to bring Canadian-style, single-payer health care to the United States.

He says no country in the world will have a perfect system, but that it’s his job to ask hard questions to make the American system as efficient as possible.

He likened his movement to establish universal health care to the civil rights and gay rights movements of the 20th century.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne called it “an honour” to have Sanders in Ontario to learn more about single payer, universal health care.

“We take pride in a publicly funded health care system that is a true expression of our values of fairness, equality and compassion,” she said in a statement while acknowledging that the system is not perfect.

“In this period of rapid social and economic change, someone like Senator Sanders encourages us to think big, and take bold steps to build the kind of world we want to live in.”

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