05/15/2025
https://www.democracynow.org...
"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."
"40 percent of Americans reported experiencing, quote, 'at least one of three cost-related concerns in their family: 16 percent say it is a serious problem to pay for prescription drugs.'"
"In other words, the government is proactively preventing people from getting the treatment."