Bernie Sanders

What I am going to do, Madam President, is I am going to object, and I am going to ask for a unanimous consent request on legislation that I have offered, and I want to say a word about that. I want to ask a question of my friend from…

Will you work with some of us--with myself, Senator Harkin and others--to make sure that we adequately fund the National Health Service Corps to do loan repayment or scholarships for health professional students who want to practice in…

What I also worry about is the expiration of a very important program called the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education program.

I think there is something wrong when, in our great country, we are the only Nation in the industrialized world that does not guarantee healthcare to all of its people.

But will you help us fight to make sure that we continue to have that funding and not go over that cliff, which would be a disaster for community health centers all over this country?

Unlike Senator Roberts, I believe in a Medicare for all, single payer system.

To my mind, also in the ACA and working with Senator Harkin and others, we tripled funding for the National Health Service Corps.

The President supports that waiver. Will you help the State of Vermont work with HHS to make sure that we can facilitate that process and give Vermont the opportunity to lead the Nation in that direction?

If we give tax breaks to the Koch brothers, who are worth $80 billion, do you think that is going to create a whole lot of jobs in this country?

I think the point that the professors are making, and others have made, is that there comes a point where the billionaire class has so much political power, where the Koch brothers are now because of Citizens United able to buy and sell…

Mr. Chairman, with your permission I would like to put into the record a recent BBC article entitled 'Study: U.S. is an oligarchy not a democracy.'

Would it make sense to you to give enormous tax breaks to the families of the top 1 percent of people in this country?

So, if you walked into a VA facility you would be more likely to have the option of looking at these approaches than in a private-sector hospital.

I want to thank all of our panelists. This Committee considers the issue of overmedication to be a serious national problem.

We have a horrific problem in Vermont but I think it is shared in States throughout this country.

I take and this Committee takes these allegations extremely seriously; and we are going to do everything we can to get to the bottom of this story and get to the truth.

I would say that the VA has been more aggressive than the rest of the American health care system

I have been impressed. I have been to VA facilities all over the country and I have been to a couple of DOD facilities and I am amazed.

That is a fair question. Let me ask my colleague from Louisiana--as he knows, I will be speaking more to this in a moment. I wish to thank Senator Landrieu for her strong support of legislation I introduced and for her support not only for…

The more primary care docs, the better the ratio.

I would therefore ask you to support the reauthorization and funding of section 5316 in the amount of $75 million through fiscal year 2019.

I would ask your continued support for the community health center program in general.

Let me just conclude, first of all, thanking all of you, personally, for the work you are doing.

Maybe people can comment on this--my understanding is that if the U.S. military wants a doctor, what they will say to you is, 'Young man, young woman, congratulations. We're going to send you to medical school, and in payment, you're going…

Try being a Senator going to the grocery store.