In the United States today, we are the only Nation in the industrialized world that does not guarantee people healthcare as a right.

the U.S. healthcare system 46th of 48 countries based on efficiency.

I do not believe that we utilize that practice as much as we should internationally.

The United States has, I think, a very effective form of Government in the sense that we are a Federalist system.

about 25 percent of the patients that she sees, and whom she writes prescriptions for, are unable to fill those prescriptions because they are just too expensive.

According to a Harvard study published in the American Journal of Public Health in 2009 and 'Health Affairs' in 2014, some 45,000 Americans die every year because of a lack of access to healthcare.

I think the answer is pretty clear. The Canadians have seen the American system. They prefer their own.

Thank you very much.

Meaning what? My medicine is free or virtually free?

I also want to thank them, as well as my environmental policy adviser, Jacob Smith, for all of the hard work they have done on this important issue.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that two science policy fellows from my office, Anna Mebust and Melissa Holtmeyer, be granted floor privileges through the end of the session. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

Mr. President, as I begin, I thank Senator Boxer for her wonderful leadership of the Environment Committee and for her strong activism regarding climate change. I thank Senator Whitehouse and Senator Schatz, as well, for organizing this…

We are going to have learn more about France in a few minutes.

I have talked to doctors who say, 'Yes, people walk in the door and they are now terminally ill.'

the United States spends almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as does any other country.

we are losing some 45,000 people a year because they do not get to a doctor when they should.

The reality is that today, the United States is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee healthcare as a right.

The free-market system does not exist anywhere in healthcare.