Bernie Sanders actually said...

"I strongly support this limited experimentation, both because of this important benefit to patients, and because it might well promote the progress of understanding about how best to induce this class..."

"In 2004, Representative Sanders expressed interest in drafting a bill to implement a version of the prize fund approach for the U.S. market."

"I commend you, Senator--to give America a conception of how legislation could occur where it was sense and not campaign dollars that drove the bottom line of what Congress did."

"I think the bigger issue, Senator Reed, is that, as I said, 14 programs plus the Administration is pushing for principal write-downs."