Mar 10, 2014
The American system has access to healthcare for everybody. It is called the emergency room.
Bernie Sanders
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Bernie Sanders is an American politician and activist who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. A member of the Independent party, Sanders is known for his progressive policies and advocacy for social justice, healthcare reform, and income equality. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, where he was the first independent elected to the House in 40 years. Throughout his career, Sanders has been a vocal critic of economic inequality and corporate influence in politics.
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Mar 10, 2014
If this is the kind of healthcare that we are proud of in the United States of America, well, some of us have some strong disagreements about that.
Mar 10, 2014
We are losing some 45,000 people a year because they do not get to a doctor when they should.
Mar 10, 2014
The reality is that today, the United States is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee healthcare as a right.
Mar 10, 2014
In other words, you have a nation bordering on the United States, two nations that are probably as close together in so many respects as any two nations in the world, a conservative prime minister, and yet there is no effort to move to an…
Mar 10, 2014
I think it is a popular program, but if you say Government should not be involved in healthcare, and Medicare is a Government healthcare program.
Mar 10, 2014
About 25 percent of the patients that she sees, and whom she writes prescriptions for, are unable to fill those prescriptions because they are just too expensive.
Mar 10, 2014
According to a Harvard study published in the American Journal of Public Health in 2009 and 'Health Affairs' in 2014, some 45,000 Americans die every year because of a lack of access to healthcare.
Mar 10, 2014
The United States has, I think, a very effective form of Government in the sense that we are a Federalist system.
Mar 10, 2014
I do not believe that we utilize that practice as much as we should internationally.
Mar 10, 2014
In the United States today, we are the only Nation in the industrialized world that does not guarantee people healthcare as a right.
Mar 10, 2014
If people end up in the hospital for conditions for which you should not have exacerbations, if you have access to primary care, that is called 'avoidable hospitalization.'
Mar 10, 2014
I have talked to doctors who say, 'Yes, people walk in the door and they are now terminally ill.'
Mar 10, 2014
I am embarrassed to say, that we come out in the United States as 19, and the French come out as No. 1.
Mar 10, 2014
The United States spends almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as does any other country.
Mar 10, 2014
It is widely known in Canada that the public commitment to our single-payer Medicare system is so strong that for a prime minister of any political stripe to try to alter that and undermine it in any way would be political suicide.
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