Where We Go From Here, by Bernie Sanders: on Health Care

Bernie Sanders: ObamaCare insured 20 million, but didn't go far enough

I voted for the Affordable Care Act because, while it did not go anywhere near as far as I wanted, it did provide health insurance for about 20 million more Americans, ended the abomination of people being denied insurance coverage because of preexisting conditions, expanded primary health care, and significantly improved health care coverage for women.

Bernie Sanders: No country except USA lets drug companies charge any price

The reason we pay two times, five times, ten times more for medicine than any other countries do is pretty simple. No other country on earth allows drug companies to charge any price they want for any reason. Somebody in Burlington, Vermont, can walk into a pharmacy and find that the price they pay for the medicine they've been using for years has doubled or tripled. And in the United States, that is perfectly legal. Drug companies can and do raise prices, sometimes in outrageous ways, simply because they can, because the market will bear it.

Bernie Sanders: $12B more for Federally Qualified Health Centers

I will never forget the day Reid called me into his office and told me that he was putting $12 billion more into the program, asd part of the Affordable Care Act, the largest expansion in FQHC history. As a result, many millions more Americans have been able to access the health care they need.

Harry Reid: $12B for more community health centers

I have long been a champion of seeing the government create a strong primary health care system so that every American, regardless of income, can visit a doctor whenever he or she needs to. The best vehicle for doing so was a major expansion of the Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) program. Harry and I talked often about the importance of community health centers, and how they were working effectively in Vermont as well as in his own state of Nevada.

I will never forget the day Reid called me into his office and told me that he was putting $12 billion more into the program, as part of the Affordable Care Act, the largest expansion in FQHC history. As a result, many millions more Americans have been able to access the health care they need.