Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

In Europe, Sanders Would Be Center-Right

Universal health care doesn't have to mean higher taxes.

January 19, 2016 at 2:03 PM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

Socialist? What socialist?
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One of the more important arguments between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton during Sunday’s Democratic debate occurred over whether to push for "Medicare for all," as Sanders insisted, or to build more slowly on the limited success of Obamacare. Clinton said:

Sanders retorted: