Health Quotes by Bernie Sanders

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

— Bernie Sanders

Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.

— Bernie Sanders

Instead of cutting Social Security, we're going to expand Social Security benefits.

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Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

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Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

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Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

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The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

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When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security…

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20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to…

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Hillary Clinton wants to see that all Americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange.

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The United States must join the rest of the industrialized world, guarantee health care to all people as a right.

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I do not accept the belief that the United States of America and our government can't stand up to the ripoffs of…

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It is a dictatorship. They did have a good health - do have a decent health care system and a decent educational…

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Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.

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It's absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people and paid family and…

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I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in…

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Believe me, every American, every person in this country, if I have anything to say about it, will know precisely what is…

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The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for…

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We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we…

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You cannot be a party which takes money from Wall Street, which is not strong on the pharmaceutical industry, which is ripping…

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Every major country on earth, whether it's the U.K., whether it's France, whether it's Canada, has managed to provide healthcare to all…

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We have to develop a strong economic message which says every American is entitled to health care through a national health care…

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I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by…

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In my view, it is not a question of Trump having won the election, it's a question of Democrats having lost the…

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Bernie Sanders did not wake up last night with this great idea that we should guarantee health care to all people as…

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“According to a recent report drafted by thirty-nine physicians from the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and endorsed by some…

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The United States has got to join the rest of the industrialized world in making sure that working families of the middle…

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Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important…

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In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.

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Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are…

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Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a…

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If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is…

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The American people in Congress have got to ask themselves a very simple question. Why are we the only major country on…

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At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year…

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You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health…

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I do believe that in the future, not by dismantling what we have here - I helped write that bill - but…

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All that I can say is that we are spending far more per capita than people in any other country, and our…

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Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine…

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Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship.

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Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake…

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