Hey AOC and Bernie Sanders: If Medicare Is for All, Why Not Chevrolets for All?

Elad Vaida

Politics,

Here's an idea. 

America suffers from a grave societal ill that somehow has been totally ignored.

As debate rages about health care (among other hot-button issues), no one is discussing a very alarming statistic: As of 2015, nearly 10% of U.S. households didn’t have a car. 

That’s a severe problem, because affordable transportation is a basic human right, and not an issue for car companies to profit from greedily.

Millions of Americans are living without cars, and the only way to remedy that is by implementing a national, government-funded Chevrolets for All plan that would put a Chevy in the garage, driveway, or parking lot of every single adult American. 

Of course, under this plan, millions of Americans who already own cars will have to give them up, and start driving government-provided Chevrolets. Sure, that might seem unfair, but why should some people drive limousines while others have no cars at all?

If this proposal sounds absurd, consider the health care debate. Although no prominent liberal wants to take away your Lamborghini (yet), they have no problems taking away your private health insurance plan.

Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Kamala Harris, D-Calif., have both admittedtheir plans would abolish private health insurance. Harris had originally opposed private health care, then flip-flopped twice. Sanders’ Medicare for All bill now has 14 co-sponsors in the Senate.