The health care system today is working really good, for the insurance companies and for the drug companies.

Thank you again, Chairman Sanders, for your leadership and interest in our views.

Poverty in itself is a death sentence.

it will take more individuals like you, Senator Sanders, and the HELP Committee, to achieve--thank you.

Thank you, Senator Sanders, for showing us continuously what leadership looks like, for being our voice when others are not listening.

We have got to do that in Texas. We have got to do that in many, many states in this country.

We are very grateful to HELP Committee Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member Cassidy, and all Members of the Committee for your interest in and focus on national health workforce challenges.

What we need to do is very simply. Create a health care system designed to provide quality, affordable health care to all as a human right.

We have got to bring those people into the process.

You got to elect people who are going to stand up and fight for them, make a difference in their lives.

We have got to do that in Texas. We have got to do that in many, many states in this country.

This is what we should be doing.

Thank you for your time, Senator Sanders.

Does anybody think it is vaguely sane that at a time when we desperately need more physicians, especially black and Latino physicians, that we are asking people to leave school, medical school, $300,000, $400,000 in debt?

You got to elect people who are going to stand up and fight for them, make a difference in their lives.

I would not be here as Chairman of the Committee if the people of Georgia had not done what they did.

The opposition there is enormous. The people who are making the money want to maintain the status quo.

The opposition there is enormous. The people who are making the money want to maintain the status quo.