Arizona Democrat seeking to unseat GOP rep backed universal single-payer health care in resurfaced clip

PHOENIX — The Democratic nominee successful a adjacent Arizona House title backed government-run cosmopolitan wellness attraction during a 2019 municipality hallway for then-presidential campaigner Bernie Sanders, an archived video clip reveals.

“We person a strategy that is based connected nan free market, and there’s a batch of things that are incorrect pinch that,” Amish Shah said astatine an event nan Phoenix Democratic Socialists of America and nan Progressive Democrats of America hosted successful May 2019.

“No different industrialized state aliases first-world state offers wellness attraction done a free marketplace because it’s not really a system,” Shah declared. To “take nan problem and hole it, we request universal, single-payer Medicare for All passim this country.”

That would destruct each backstage wellness security successful America.

Republican Rep. David Schweikert is Shah’s force successful a competitory re-election title successful Arizona. Barcroft Media via Getty Images

When The Post reached retired to Shah’s run to spot if he still holds that stance, nan campaigner deflected.

“As a expert who has been practicing medicine for complete 20 years, I cognize that location are advantages and disadvantages to each healthcare system. These are existent people’s lives, and nan patients and voters I person spoken to do not admit nan usage of this taxable arsenic an opportunity for cynical governmental attacks,” Shah told The Post.

“Ultimately what matters is that group person entree to affordable healthcare,” Shah concluded.

Competing successful nan state’s Democratic superior successful July, Shah told nan Arizona Republic that while he still backs cosmopolitan wellness care, payer options different than conscionable nan “single payer” he touted successful 2019 should beryllium connected nan table.

Shah won nan July 30 1st Congressional District superior pinch 23.5% of nan vote, beating retired 5 different Democrats.

Shah, a erstwhile Arizona authorities rep, is moving against incumbent Republican Rep. David Schweikert for nan highly competitory seat. Cook Political Report ranks nan title a toss-up, pinch a flimsy separator for nan GOP — R+2 — successful its Partisan Voting Index.

Republicans opportunity nan clip intimately ties Shah to Sanders.

“Amish Shah has been caught red-handed endorsing Bernie Sanders for president astatine a Phoenix Socialists event. Arizonans will cull this Bernie Bro hellbent connected imposing his extremist socialist schedule connected them,” said National Republican Congressional Committee spokesperson Ben Petersen.