
While American families struggle with skyrocketing healthcare costs and grocery bills, Republicans are gearing up to fork over another $150 billion to the military-industrial complex.
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While American families struggle with skyrocketing healthcare costs and grocery bills, Republicans are gearing up to fork over another $150 billion to the military-industrial complex.

The doomsday that Americans fear in the 21st century isn't being vaporized by a nuclear bomb. It's the doomsday diagnosis of cancer, it's medical debt, it's housing payments or loan payments, it's grocery bills and heating bills.

The people want a more efficient government, quality healthcare, housing costs that don't skyrocket, and affordable eggs and groceries—not a bloated military budget that doesn't make us any safer.

Taking from the pot. Your health and access to care is up for negotiation? This should frighten and outrage people.

Compared to other developed countries, the United States has among the worst health care outcomes. That is especially true for communities of color, who confront systemic barriers, biases and neglect when seeking necessary, life-saving medical care.

We believe the ad risks misleading patients by omitting any safety or side effect information.

an unprecedented rise in the need for behavioral health support.

a baby born during a botched abortion deserved the same level of medical care that a child born in any other setting would receive.

The U.S. spends 2x more per capita on healthcare than any other nation. Yet 85 million are uninsured or underinsured, 68,000 die because they can't afford a doctor, and we pay the highest prices in the world for Rx drugs. Healthcare is a human right. We must pass Medicare for All.

I have talked with women around our country... they are being denied IVF treatments.

We’re going to fight to make sure everyone qualifies for that $2,000 cap on drug costs.

The same law we wrote means starting in January of this year, every senior in the United States of America, no matter what their cost of drugs, will never have to spend more than $2,000 a year for all drugs.

Medicare represents more than 65 million people, and now Medicare can use that power to go toe to toe with big pharma and negotiate lower drug prices.

Under the law I signed, Medicare can negotiate lower prices for another 15 drugs next year, 15 the following, and 20 after that until every drug is covered.

In the United States of America, no senior should have to choose between either filling their prescription or paying their rent.

Too many Americans can’t afford the drugs they badly need for life and death.

For years, big pharma has often inflated the price of lifesaving medications, often charging many times what it would cost to make just to increase their profits.

I believe that healthcare should be a right, not a privilege, in America.