Bernard Sanders

This is a hearing designed to discuss the working conditions that nurses at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital are facing and why they have been on strike for almost 3 months.

Thank you, Chairman Sanders, for calling this hearing and giving me the chance to provide my testimony.

The function of a humane and civilized health care system is to provide quality care to all, not to make huge profits for the insurance companies, the drug companies.

The function of a humane and civilized health care system is to provide quality care to all, not to make huge profits for the insurance companies, the drug companies.

For better or worse, nurses are much more respected than politicians.

They tell me that they are stressed out. They are burnt out and are leaving the profession they love in droves because they are overworked, undervalued, and are forced each and every day to do more work with less resources.

They tell me that they are stressed out. They are burnt out and are leaving the profession they love in droves because they are overworked, undervalued, and are forced each and every day to do more work with less resources.

I have been on the Senate Health, Education and Labor Pension Committee for 18 years, and you know what, we have never had a larger meeting than this.

This is a hearing designed to discuss the working conditions that nurses at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital are facing and why they have been on strike for almost 3 months.

We owe them a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid.

In the United States of America, we spend almost twice as much per capita as any other major country.

Thank you, Chairman Sanders, for calling this hearing and giving me the chance to provide my testimony.

For working class people, lower income people, the gap in their life expectancy with the rich is about 10 years in America.

The idea that you are willing to go without paychecks to deal with--to walk on picket lines, to deal with all of the stuff out there in order to protect your patients is rather extraordinary.

We owe them a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid.

For working class people, lower income people, the gap in their life expectancy with the rich is about 10 years in America.

I have been on the Senate Health, Education and Labor Pension Committee for 18 years, and you know what, we have never had a larger meeting than this.

What the nurses have told me, and I have had the opportunity on several occasions to sit down and talk with these nurses, is that what this strike has everything to do with is the safety of their patients.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

every treatment I have received was supported by NIH funded research