Bernie Sanders

Are we satisfied that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for the same damn drugs that are sold around the world for a fraction of the price that is sold in the United States?

The cost of healthcare is very, very high. Of course it's high. We pay almost twice as much per capita for healthcare as any other nation on earth.

The day will come, and more and more people understand it--that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare to every man, woman, and child in Wyoming and Vermont as a right, not a privilege.

It is more important than ever that the Commission's Federal Co-chair be a strong advocate for the communities that desperately need these investments.

Too often, rural America has been left behind when it comes to economic development.

If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court, it will have a profoundly negative effect on workers' rights, women's rights, and voting rights for the decades to come.

What we are proposing is nothing terribly radical. It is a pilot project to see what kind of need is out there.

All right. Let me just jump in and ask anybody, are you aware of veterans who have serious dental needs?

I appreciate that very much, and I think the time is long overdue, as Rick just mentioned, for us to pass that.

Untreated oral health conditions can lead to tooth loss, pain and infection, and contribute to an increased risk for serious medical conditions such as diabetes and poor birth outcomes.

They literally drew a line on a map across the mouth of the river. I mean, you do not have to be an ocean hydrologist to know how stupid that is.

Whether or not you have dental care, which is absolutely necessary to good health, should not depend on where you live.

It is way past time for the VA to do this pilot study.

What do we know about people who use VA? They are older, they are sicker, and they have multiple and complex interactions of physical conditions.

FRA supports the draft legislation sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) to authorize a pilot program for expanded dental services for certain veterans;

Maybe our position should be if you are a veteran and you served in the United States military and you become ill, you are entitled to VA health care. End of discussion.

All of this discussion, picking up on Senator Manchin's point, tells us why we need universal health care.

Too many of our veterans are not getting the dental care they need.

The time is long overdue for the VA to acknowledge what most Americans acknowledge: dental care is health care.

The idea that we are compensating people appropriately for exposure to Agent Orange and the diabetes it causes, but not dealing with dental care does not make any sense to me at all.

So, I think what you are seeing both in New York City with Alexandria, in Maryland with Ben, are strong candidates running grassroots campaigns on a progressive agenda, and I think when you have that combination, you're going to see more…

I think it would be a very important factor in bringing people out to the polls. I'm very strongly pro-choice.

I would say to Mitch McConnell -- remember what you said when Obama was president. Let the American people have a vote in November as to whether or not they want to overturn Roe versus Wade, whether they want to allow discrimination…

I have no hope that he will appoint anything resembling a moderate or a justice who will take both sides and to consider it -- the consideration. I think what we're looking for is the nomination of a right-wing extremist.

The overwhelming majority of the American people support Roe versus Wade. We have differences of opinion on abortion, but the idea of overturning Roe versus Wade would be a decision that reflects only a small minority of the American…