Sanders’s brother calls ObamaCare ‘inadequate’

Bernie Sanders’s brother is going on the offense against ObamaCare, which he blames for leaving millions of people uninsured while failing to limit costs for poorer and sicker people.

“Obamacare, though an improvement, is an inadequate alternative,” Larry Sanders, a longtime resident of the U.K. who now serves as the health spokesman for the Green Party of England and Wales, wrote in an op-ed published by The Guardian on Thursday.

{mosads}The Democratic presidential candidate’s older brother, who has lived in Britain since the 1960s, is entering one of the most divisive debates within the Democratic Party this year.

Larry Sanders slammed Hillary Clinton for dismissing his elder brother’s calls for universal healthcare, comparing her position to that of GOP candidate Ted Cruz.

“The strangest thing about the debate over healthcare in the US is that it is still going on,” he wrote. “The system’s failure is glaring.”

Clinton has acknowledged rising healthcare costs, vowing to crack down on drug companies and health insurers. But she has refused a debate over a single-payer system, arguing that she doesn’t want to “rip [ObamaCare] up and start over.”

Larry Sanders trumpeted the U.K.’s National Health Services as a far better model than the U.S.’s “very unequal system.”

Most of his criticism is directed at the U.S.’s private insurance market, saying it allows companies to limit benefits and raise out-of-pocket costs, which “increases the scope for profiteering.”

“Under Obamacare costs continue disproportionately to be paid by middle-and lower-income Americans and those facing acute or chronic illness,” he wrote.