It’s amazing how the media is holding this woman up as the person who is going to somehow save the Democratic party. She says such outrageous things that the media would never let slide for anyone else. Her recent comment about socialized medicine and funerals was downright creepy.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Ocasio-Cortez Defends Single-Payer Health Care by Citing Reduced ‘Funeral Expenses’
CNN host Chris Cuomo brought up the “sticker shock” of a single-payer system to his guest, noting such a proposal didn’t even work in a blue state like Vermont. Ocasio-Cortez, who burst onto the national scene when she upset Rep. Joe Crowley (D., N.Y.) in the Democratic primary in June, deflected by saying the current system causes sticker shock.
“We’re paying for this system,” she said. “Americans have the sticker shock of health care as it is, and what we’re also not talking about is why aren’t we incorporating the cost of all the funeral expenses of those who died because they can’t afford access to health care? That is part of the cost of our system.”
“Why don’t we talk about the cost of reduced productivity because of people who need to go on disability, because of people who are not able to participate in our economy because they are having issues like diabetes or they don’t have access to the health care that they need?” she added.
Watch the video:
Absolutely stunning.
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