From The Huffington Post: Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare For All’ Online Town Hall Draws 1 Million Live Viewers
The Vermont senator delighted in circumventing the television networks.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Kentucky State AFL-CIO is one of more than 600 union organizations nationwide that has endorsed HR 676, a single-payer bill. Kay Tillow, a veteran union and civil rights activist from Louisville, is a leader in the national single-payer movement and she heads Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care.
By DANIEL MARANS
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ televised town hall on Tuesday night to promote single-payer health care, or “Medicare for all,” drew a live audience of about 1 million people ― all of whom viewed the event exclusively online.
For Sanders, whose single-payer health care legislation elicited the support of over one-third of the Senate Democratic Caucus, the 90-minute broadcast at the U.S. Capitol visitors center was an opportunity to promote a top policy priority while thumbing his nose at the “corporate media.”
“This is the first Medicare for all town meeting held in our nation’s capitol. This is the first nationally televised town meeting on Medicare for all,” Sanders said in his introductory remarks. “And very importantly, this is the first nationally televised Senate town meeting that is taking place outside of corporate media.”