Bernie Sanders

I mean, that seems clear. We are all Senators, and we have large staffs. It is hard for us to get through the bureaucracy.

I would hope that we make sure that for the rest of the lives of all of those people who have served that this Congress accepts the moral responsibility to make sure that they have all the care that they need.

I frankly don't know what they are talking about.

I said that, really, the only solution to this, the negative equity states, will be massive principal reductions.

This is going to be such a--you know, there are so many competing problems in this industry.

Please stop printing money.

The implication, again from my friend Senator Paul, is that we have kind of solved the problem of health care access in America

I believe that health care is a right, R-I-G-H-T, regardless of income.

Not to everybody we don't, but we do have a food stamp program which does provide to low-income people.

Is it fair to say that honest people can have differences of opinion ascertaining what is, in fact, utilization of emergency rooms, whether it is for a true emergency or not?

I would first like to thank Chairman Sanders, Senator Paul, and members of the subcommittee for inviting me to come and give testimony

Greater and more satisfactory access for the poor to see physicians of every specialty. This is universal access.

So the point here is that in a rural area, in a low-income area we have gone a long way through the establishment of six satellite programs to provide quality, cost-effective health care to the people of that area.

I have been to every one of the clinics in the Northeast Kingdom, and you know what, they smile there too.

In my view Planned Parenthood does an excellent job and I strongly support it.

I thank Chairman Sanders, Senator Paul, and members of the subcommittee for inviting me to come and give testimony about how we in my community have begun to lower ER visits, decrease healthcare costs, and improve the health of our…

Are you worried that if we consider health care as a right in the State of Vermont that the St. Johnsbury Police Department, in the middle of the night, is going to break down your door and force you to treat a patient?

This is going to be an interesting year, I will tell you that.

Thank you for the invitation to testify about use of hospital emergency departments for nonurgent health problems.

Thank you all very much for being with us today to discuss this very important issue.

It appears that in many parts of this country there is a shortage of primary health care physicians.

The United States today is the only Nation in the industrialized world that does not guarantee health care to all of its people as a right.

Would you agree that it makes a lot more sense to try to find a medical home for people?

Thank you very much.

I think most of us would agree that our health care system today has many very, very serious problems.