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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.
I appreciate the interest of Senator Vitter in this very important issue. Senator Landrieu of Louisiana shares his concern, as do Senators from many States in this country because, as Senator Vitter indicated, this bill will authorize the…
The country, above and beyond the VA, faces a crisis in lack of quality, affordable access to mental health care.
We have seen 2,300 individuals suffer wounds in war that make it impossible for them to have kids.
In the United States today, we are the only Nation in the industrialized world that does not guarantee people healthcare as a right.
This is the United States of America. This is not a Third World developing country.
The American system has access to healthcare for everybody. It is called the emergency room.
The United States has, I think, a very effective form of Government in the sense that we are a Federalist system.
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.
I also want to thank them, as well as my environmental policy adviser, Jacob Smith, for all of the hard work they have done on this important issue.
The reality is that today, the United States is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee healthcare as a right.
I am embarrassed to say, that we come out in the United States as 19, and the French come out as No. 1.
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.
I do not believe that we utilize that practice as much as we should internationally.
the United States spends almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as does any other country.
I ask unanimous consent that two science policy fellows from my office, Anna Mebust and Melissa Holtmeyer, be granted floor privileges through the end of the session. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
as I begin, I thank Senator Boxer for her wonderful leadership of the Environment Committee and for her strong activism regarding climate change. I thank Senator Whitehouse and Senator Schatz, as well, for organizing this important…
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.
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.'
I have talked to doctors who say, 'Yes, people walk in the door and they are now terminally ill.'
we are losing some 45,000 people a year because they do not get to a doctor when they should.
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