Bernie Sanders

This debate is, in my view, maybe the most important debate facing our country.

What that means right now that employers spend a whole lot of money providing health care to their employees. And without having to do that, there would be the opportunity to pay their workers higher wages; correct?

I do not understand why my Republican friends are not jumping up and down and saying, Bernie, we are with you.

I believe, and the American people overwhelmingly believe that Medicare should negotiate prescription drug prices.

If the people that run these big entities now do not do something about it, they should not have anyone to complain to because government will be the solution.

I think the point that Dr. El-Sayed was making--and I remember this, as being a mayor. We had the same problem as any small business. We had to search for the best, most cost-effective health insurance.

I think we should vote on whether we continue massive tax breaks for billionaires so that Jeff Bezos in a given year does not pay a nickel in taxes.

Conservative governments have been in power in Canada, in the U.K., and they would not for a second try to get rid of their national health care system because it is so popular.

If we had Medicare for All before this pandemic started, hospitals would have been better prepared to respond.

I would like to commend Ranking Member Graham for his hard work on proposals to usher in a new era of health reform.

The genius of Medicare for All is not just that it solves coverage and cost.

Now Medicare for All would solve each of these problems, allowing us to cover everyone and at the same time to improve the quality of coverage, eliminating co-pays, deductibles, and narrow insurance networks.

There is probably no issue more important to the American people than health care.

If we are serious about investing, and I know my colleagues, my conservative colleagues here care a lot about the lives of children they say.

You think about the impact on the economy, all the businesses that go unbuilt, all of the new careers that go unestablished because people are worried about what might happen if they leave their job and lose their health insurance.

So we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on folks who bill us and drive us crazy but do not provide any health care to us.

It is a little bit crazy that we are spending twice as much per capita on health care as the people of other nations.

Guaranteeing health care as a right is important to the American people, not just from a moral and financial perspective.

I am tired of hearing from Americans who have lost loved ones because they could not afford the unbelievably high cost of prescription drugs.

It is not acceptable to me, nor to the American people, that over 70 million Americans today are either uninsured or underinsured.

Medicare for All will become the law of the land, if not now, but in the future because this is what the American people want.

The current debate that we are having on health care and Medicare for All really has nothing to do with health care.

We are losing, according to the best studies, over 60,000 Americans every year who die unnecessarily because they are uninsured or underinsured.

Well, I think many of us have a different idea, and that is that maybe, just maybe Congress should represent the American people and not lobbyists and large corporations.

While ordinary Americans struggled to pay for health care during this pandemic--the six largest health insurance companies in America last year made over $60 billion in profit.