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Bernard Sanders
@bernardsanders· VT· Oct 18, 2023

One out of four Americans cannot afford to pay for the medicine they need.

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Bernard Sanders
@bernardsanders· VT· Oct 18, 2023

We spend almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other industrialized nation.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 18, 2023

The thing is that hundreds of thousands of women and children are living in desperation today. And nobody in the world can guarantee that a bottle of water may not go to somebody connected to Hamas. If you are insistent upon that, what you…

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Bernard Sanders
@bernardsanders· VT· Oct 18, 2023

Right now, we pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

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Bernard Sanders
@bernardsanders· VT· Oct 18, 2023

What does one say to a person to say thank you for your tax dollars developing the drug, but I am sorry you can't afford the treatment you need to save your life.

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Bernard Sanders
@bernardsanders· VT· Oct 18, 2023

The outrageously high cost of prescription drugs in America is a crisis and it must be addressed.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 18, 2023

I listened carefully to what Senator Scott and others have said about the barbarous acts committed by Hamas against innocent men, women, and children--the mowing down by machine guns of young people who were doing nothing more than…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 17, 2023

We pay for the research, drug companies develop the drug, they make billions, and then they charge us the highest prices in the world for the product.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Oct 17, 2023

reserving the right to object, I want to make a few comments. First of all, the Senator from Arkansas speaks for 100 Members of the Senate when he expresses his outrage at the horrendous killings and terrorist acts by Hamas against…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 17, 2023

I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record at the appropriate place the commitment letters for the Animal Drug User Fee Amendments of 2023 and the Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2023. There being no objection, the…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 17, 2023

The status quo is not working. We need fundamental changes in the way that the NIH addresses the crisis of prescription drugs.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 17, 2023

What does one say to a person to say thank you for your tax dollars developing the drug, but I am sorry you can't afford the treatment you need to save your life.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 17, 2023

The health care system in our Country is broken and it is failing.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 17, 2023

The outrageously high cost of prescription drugs in America is a crisis and it must be addressed.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 17, 2023

We need a NIH Director who is prepared to take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and use every tool at his or her disposal to substantially lower the outrageous cost of prescription drugs.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 17, 2023

Will you commit to us that you will work to make sure that Americans do not pay higher prices for prescription drugs in this country than people around the world?

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 17, 2023

every treatment I have received was supported by NIH funded research

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