Medicare is a much more popular program than Aetna is, with all due respect.
Bernie Sanders
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How do you feel--everybody here, regardless of political persuasion, is worried about the soaring costs of healthcare.
The truth is that of any program out there, single-payer is the most popular.
I applaud the President for understanding that reality, for beginning the process of putting the necessary funds into that struggle.
We do not have options about whether we keep our children healthy, about whether or not the air we breathe is clean.
My time has expired. Thank you very much, and I will certainly look forward to working with you in the years to come.
I think what you will have to be aware of is the drug companies will spend hundreds of millions of dollars trying to prevent us from doing that, and I hope we will be able to stand up to that pressure because high cost of prescription…
I find it very hard to believe, in a world of unfettered, free trade, that we cannot safely bring medicine in from Canada or the United Kingdom.
I personally find it hard to understand how we can import food from small farms in Mexico and in the back woods of China, and that is OK, but somehow or another we are not able to import less expensive prescription drugs from…
I hope that you will work on that issue. I think it is absolutely doable and I think that millions of people would be very grateful to see lower-cost prescription drugs in this country.
Trying to get a handle on caloric intake of people, maybe making fast food chains publish in their menus the kinds of calories that people are absorbing.





