This debate is, in my view, maybe the most important debate facing our country.

I think the point that Dr. El-Sayed was making--and I remember this, as being a mayor. We had the same problem as any small business. We had to search for the best, most cost-effective health insurance.

If we had Medicare for All before this pandemic started, hospitals would have been better prepared to respond.

The genius of Medicare for All is not just that it solves coverage and cost.

It is not acceptable to me, nor to the American people, that over 70 million Americans today are either uninsured or underinsured.

Conservative governments have been in power in Canada, in the U.K., and they would not for a second try to get rid of their national health care system because it is so popular.

There is probably no issue more important to the American people than health care.

If the people that run these big entities now do not do something about it, they should not have anyone to complain to because government will be the solution.

It is a little bit crazy that we are spending twice as much per capita on health care as the people of other nations.

I believe, and the American people overwhelmingly believe that Medicare should negotiate prescription drug prices.

I am tired of seeing working-class families and small business pay far more for health care than they can afford.

We are now spending $12,530 per capita on health care. This is an outrageous and unsustainable sum of money.

Health care is a human right and not a privilege and that we must end the international embarrassment of our great country being the only major nation on Earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right to all of its people.

It is not acceptable to me that we end up spending over twice as much per capita on health care as other major countries around the world.

Well, I think many of us have a different idea, and that is that maybe, just maybe Congress should represent the American people and not lobbyists and large corporations.

I am tired of hearing from Americans who have lost loved ones because they could not afford the unbelievably high cost of prescription drugs.

I do not understand why my Republican friends are not jumping up and down and saying, Bernie, we are with you.

Bottom line is that your health and your longevity, how long you live, should not be a factor of how much money you have.