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Health care Quotes by Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders argues that health care should be a right for everyone, just like Denmark’s free universal system. He points out that a public option can give people more choice and fairness. He also calls out the oddity of the United States being the only major country without guaranteed health care.

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Of course their [Cuba's] economy is terrible, but they have Health Care and education.

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

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

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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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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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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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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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If people envisage me in the Senate they might think of me as someone who would emulate Paul Wellstone, fighting for the…

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The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap…

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Hillary Clinton is on record supporting a doubling of community health centers in this country, which will mean that tens of millions…

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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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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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Where America has got to move is not growth for the sake of growth, but it's got to move to a society…

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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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What democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this…

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

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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 did work with John McCain. I did work with Jeff Miller over in the House. And we put together not the…

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These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care…

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I wanna end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee…

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If we greatly expanded primary health care, lower the cost of prescription drugs, we take a giant step forward in lowering health…

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I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care…

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Everyone can have health care. Everyone can earn a living wage. We can educate all our kids - well. But none of…

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I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I remember her, as you do, as a great first lady who broke precedent…

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Given the fact that poverty is growing, more and more Americans are losing health insurance, health care costs are going up, the…

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Now, why would my supporters be supporting somebody who doesn't want to raise the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, a…

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As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective…

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When the media worries about what Hillary’s hair looks like or what my hair looks like, that’s a real problem. We have…

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When I talk about democratic socialist, I am talking about Medicare, a single payer health care system for the elderly. And in…

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I know media is not necessarily focused on these things. But what a campaign is about is not Hillary Clinton, it's not…

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I want to break up the Wall Street banks. Hillary Clinton doesn't. I want to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour.…

The Palestinian people's needs must be respected.

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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It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s. There were…

I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.

The case to be made is that we have got to get people involved - continue to get people involved in the political process…