Bernie Sanders: “when we look at the health care crisis in America, there are many dimensions to it, but clearly one of the dimensions is…”

“when we look at the health care crisis in America, there are many dimensions to it, but clearly one of the dimensions is that in my State of Vermont and all over this country physicians are writing out prescriptions to their patients, but they are saying, what is the sense of me writing out a prescription if my patient cannot afford to get it filled? So what we are finding is that senior citizens and many, many other people are simply unable to take the prescription drugs that they need, or they are dividing their dosages in half, or they are taking their prescription drugs once every other day. We hear from pharmacists that our legislation is supported by the Community Pharmacists of America. They stand behind their desks, behind their counters and their hearts are broken when senior citizens cannot afford the products that their doctors are prescribing, when people are dying and when people are suffering and we have the cure right in front of us.”