Former Vice President Joe Biden stated Monday that he was not reconsidering his opposition to single-payer well being care regardless of the pressure that the coronavirus pandemic has placed on the prevailing health-care system. 

"Single-payer is not going to clear up that in any respect," Biden stated throughout an interview on MSNBC. 

Biden is operating in opposition to Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination. Biden is forward in delegates, 1,181 to 871, out of 1,991 wanted to win, in line with an NBC Information tracker. 

Sanders' "Medicare-for-all" proposal to overtake the health-care system and implement a single-payer, government-run system was a spotlight of the race even earlier than the general public well being disaster erupted within the U.S. and primarily knocked each males off the marketing campaign path.

Biden has opposed the proposal, citing its prices, and steered earlier in March that as president he may veto it, although his marketing campaign later appeared to stroll again the feedback. 

"The factor that's...