We did not have the infrastructure we needed to deal with the pandemic.

What is the morality, and I want all three of you to respond to it, of us having a product that cost a few dollars to produce but not making it available to people around the world who are dying?

How does it happen that we pay by far the highest prices of any major country for prescription drugs?

We lost over 1 million people from COVID.

Our job is to make sure that we are protecting the American people.

What is the morality, and I want all three of you to respond to it, of us having a product that cost a few dollars to produce but not making it available to people around the world who are dying?

How does it happen that we pay by far the highest prices of any major country for prescription drugs?

We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other country on earth.

What that means is that one out of four patients who receive a prescription from their doctor are unable to afford to fill that prescription.

What scientists are telling us is that there is a reasonable chance that, God forbid, that a pandemic as deadly as COVID, COVID-19 could occur in 10 years.

We lost over 1 million people from COVID.

Senator Sanders' Medical Innovation Prize Fund Act as an 'open-source dividend.'

Do we all understand that the best drug in the world is meaningless if somebody can't afford it?

We see Medicare costs are extraordinarily high because they pay very high prices for the prescription drugs that they dispense.

But the truth is that we were very, very unprepared for what hit us 3 years ago.

We dealt with the worst public health crisis in 100 years.

I want to speak about the looming debt crisis, the fact that within 30 days, there is a real and substantial likelihood that America will do something that America has never done; and that is fail to pay its bills in full and on time…

In Vermont, dairy has been our backbone in terms of playing that role historically, and it is under immense pressure.