'What we have in this country is really disgraceful' when it comes to healthcare, says sensanders
"What we have in this country is really disgraceful" when it comes to healthcare, says the U.S. senator from Vermont.Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a New Year's Day message on Sunday as he gets ready to take over as chair of the powerful Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the U.S. Senate when Congress comes back into session later this month.
Fixing the nation's healthcare system, he said, is"an issue, together, we are going to have to work on. We must have the courage to stand up to the greed and recklessness of the insurance companies and the drug companies" who continue to oppose progressive reforms, including the push for Medicare for All.
"I'm thinking about a country today where at this moment workers all across this country—at Starbucks, Amazon, nurses at hospitals, workers at factories, young people at college campuses—they are organizing unions in order to receive better wages and working continues, because they know, at the end of the day, that unity—bringing people together for collective bargaining—is the only way that many workers are going to get the benefits, wages, and working conditions that they so...
Acknowledging political realities, however, Sanders said he knows very well that he will not have the power to simply pound his gavel of the new committee"and lo and behold all these important pieces of legislation get passed."
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