But we are in agreement that if everybody in this country were guaranteed comprehensive health care, people would be freer to leave their jobs and do what they really wanted to do?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Health care is a human right and not a privilege and that we must end the international embarrassment of our great country being the only major nation on Earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right to all of its people.

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.

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?

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.

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

Now one of the reasons that Medicare For All is expensive is because it does what should be done, and that is make sure that every American has health care, provides quality care to all of our people.

It is not acceptable to me that we end up spending over twice as much per capita on health care as other major countries around the world.

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

I believe everyone is entitled to receive care. It is a necessity.

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.

I am tired of seeing working-class families and small business pay far more for health care than they can afford.

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.