Bernie Sanders

We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other country on earth.

How does it happen that we pay by far the highest prices of any major country for prescription drugs?

We lost over 1 million people from COVID.

We dealt with the worst public health crisis in 100 years.

The promise of virus hunters that they could use this information to predict future pandemic was a fallacy.

What is the morality, and I want all three of you to respond to it, of us having a product that cost a few dollars to produce but not making it available to people around the world who are dying?

How about firing power for incompetence, or both?

What has that done for us? How many lives were saved during the COVID pandemic because of investments by PAHPA or BARDA?

We could have answered this with definitive basic clinical research early. They didn't.

Congress should avoid the false narrative that insufficient Federal findings were to blame for our pathetic COVID response.

Senator Sanders' Medical Innovation Prize Fund Act as an 'open-source dividend.'

Do we all understand that the best drug in the world is meaningless if somebody can't afford it?

We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other country on earth.

How does it happen that we pay by far the highest prices of any major country for prescription drugs?

We are losing about 60,000 people a year unnecessarily because they can't afford the medicine they need.

85 million Americans are uninsured and underinsured.

One out of four patients who receive a prescription from their doctor are unable to afford to fill that prescription.

What scientists are telling us is that there is a reasonable chance that, God forbid, that a pandemic as deadly as COVID could occur in 10 years.

We did not have the infrastructure we needed to deal with the pandemic.

Our job is to make sure that we are prepared if it does occur.

We were very, very unprepared for what hit us 3 years ago.

We dealt with the worst public health crisis in 100 years.

We lost over 1 million people from COVID.

What is the morality, and I want all three of you to respond to it, of us having a product that cost a few dollars to produce but not making it available to people around the world who are dying?

What that means is that one out of four patients who receive a prescription from their doctor are unable to afford to fill that prescription.