The Supreme Court heard arguments last week on the health care law.  A ruling is expected by late June. Sen. Bernie Sanders discussed the law and the court case in an interview with Vermont Public Television.  He also praised Vermont's effort to demonstrate that a single-payer, Medicare-for-all system would provide better care at less expense.

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"The United States is the only country in the industrialized world that doesn't guarantee health care to all people. We have 50 million Americans today who have no health insurance. We have more who have high deductibles, high co-payments, are under insured. If the Supreme Court invalidates everything that Congress has done, it means you're going to have tens of millions of people out there who have no hope for the future in terms of affordable health care," Sanders told VPT's Mark Johnson.

"I certainly hope that in Vermont we are going to lead this country to a Medicare for all single payer program, which is the only cost effective way that I know to provide health care to every man, woman, and child in our state," the senator added.