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Health Quotes by Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders repeatedly criticizes attempts to privatize health care and Social Security, calling them dangerous. He highlights how millions lose insurance, pushes for a single‑payer system, and ties Medicare expansion to his democratic‑socialist vision. He also points out that the Affordable Care Act helped many, yet still leaves gaps that need fixing.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.

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.

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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…