Sunday, July 28, 2019

Some Tweets from Bernie Sanders



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    Thousands of Americans die every year because they cannot afford to see a doctor. Sadly, 's daughter was one of them. We fight for Medicare for All because no parent should have to go through that pain just so a few companies can make more in profit.
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    Incredibly emotional moment in Canada: "Today I saved $10,000. $1000 got me 6 months of insulin for my son. I paid $1000, that's less than we pay a month in the United States. How can we be the greatest country and I am paying that much?"
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    🇨🇦: insulin manufactured for around $6 🇺🇸: insulin manufactured for around $6 🇨🇦: insulin costs $32 🇺🇸: insulin costs $300 Americans are dying because of the enormous greed of the pharmaceutical industry. We have got to end their greed.
  • Three drug companies control 90 percent of the insulin market, and year after year they raise the price of insulin at the same levels. I will appoint an Attorney General who will enforce our antitrust laws, and executives caught engaging in price-fixing will go to jail.
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    "Three drug companies made $14.5 billion in profit last year, control 90% of the insulin in this country, it's just an amazing coincidence prices go up and and up and up, so what you do is you throw these people in jail if they engage in price fixing"
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    Traveling to 🇨🇦 today w/ ⁦⁩ and a group of ppl w/ type 1 diabetes who desperately need affordable insulin. For the Sen. to come w/ us is huge, bc it will raise the profile of this crisis worldwide, and that’s what it desperately needs.Follow along!
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    I’m incredibly overwhelmed seeing all the tweets about this trip. I vividly remember dropping a vial of Lantus when I was 11 and the fear I felt of not knowing what I was going to do. We need . Thank you 🙏🏽

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    . buys a vial of insulin that will last her 1-2 weeks. It retails on average for $340 in the U.S. In Canada it sells for $26-$30. Nystrom organized a similar caravan across the border to buy insulin earlier this month.
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    Es increíble que se pueda comprar insulina en Canada por una décima parte de lo que se compra en USA. Bernie Sanders detendrá el abuso de las grandes compañías farmacéuticas. Lo hará pq para Bernie esto se trata de asumir el poder para la gente.

  • LIVE NOW: I’m in Canada with diabetics buying insulin at one-tenth the price that they pay in the U.S. We will take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry.
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    This is something that must change and will get it done. It is a crime that you can buy the same medicine for the 10th of a price in Canada. Bernie will stop the greed coming from big pharma.

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders visits Canadian pharmacy with US citizens getting insulin. Big crowd gathered

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    “Think about the kind of profits they’re making in the United States. It is scandalous. It is outrageous and it cannot continue.” - Bernie discussing pharma’s greed as we cross the Canadian border with diabetics.
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    Good morning from the bus ⁦⁩ is taking to Canada with a group of people with Type I diabetes. We’re in Windsor now, just a few blocks from the pharmacy where they’ll be buying insulin prices nearly 1/10 of what they are in the U.S.
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    . holds up a vile of insulin that he’s told $340 on average in the US and lasts about one to two weeks for someone with Type 1 diabetes. In Canada, it will cost $26-$30.
  • I just boarded the bus in Detroit with diabetics, on our way to Windsor, Canada, to buy affordable insulin. Americans are paying $300 for insulin. In Canada they can purchase it for $30. We are going to end pharma’s greed.
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    This morning goes from Detroit to Windsor, OT, accompanying Diabetes patients purchasing cheaper insulin in Canada. He did something similar 20 years ago as a congressman when a group of breast cancer patients left Vermont for cheaper prescription drugs.
  • After decades of economic decline and increased poverty, the government of Puerto Rico must finally respond to the needs of struggling working families, and not the greed of vulture capitalists from Wall Street who have exacerbated the financial crisis on the island.
  • The fossil fuel companies lied to us about climate change for decades, and they are not going to help us solve our climate crisis now. We are going to save this planet by taking them on and building an unprecedented movement for a Green New Deal.
  • Here's what's really going on: has been busy revealing the failures of the Trump administration and exposing the greed of Trump’s friends in the pharmaceutical industry, and our racist president doesn't like it.

  • “He is the leader in trying to stop what’s happening in Yemen, which is one of the great atrocities and horrors of the world today.” and discuss our vision for a new foreign policy on this week’s Hear the Bern:
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    Another caravan to Canada to get cheaper insulin! Hopefully the coverage makes more people aware of the struggle we face on a daily basis for our life sustaining medication.

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    Replying to 
    Senator, this is my mother. She died of diabetes in 2009. I thank you for continuing this fight for her, and for many diabetics out there, both living and deceased. She would've been proud.
  • The inventors of insulin sold the patent for just $1 so it would be available to all. 97 years later, Americans are dying because drugmakers like Eli Lilly charge $300 for a vial of insulin. Tomorrow I will be joining diabetics to buy insulin in Canada for one-tenth the price.
  • We must undo the damage Trump has done to the rights of home care workers. We will enact a domestic workers bill of rights and guarantee these workers a living wage, workplace safety protections, fair scheduling, and protect their right to organize.
  • I relish the idea of defeating Donald Trump, the most dangerous president in history. But more importantly, I look forward to working with millions of you to create a government based on love and compassion, not hate and greed.
  • The pharmaceutical industry is the biggest bunch of crooks in this country. When I am president, we are going to end their greed and slash prices for prescription drugs.
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  • Donald Trump said he'd be a different kind of Republican. Instead, he has continued the same attacks on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. We are not going to abandon our seniors. Every American has a right to a secure retirement.
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    Wow, I'm extremely excited I had this amazing chance to talk about the Green New Deal, and 's inspiring history of being there for climate justice. He gets it: only a massive movement can break the stranglehold of the fossil fuel industry and its corporate allies

  • A vial of insulin costs $300 in the United States. On Sunday, I'm joining a group of diabetics to go across the border to Canada, where the same medicine — the exact same — costs $30.

  • You do not have to pull out your credit card when you drop your child off at school or when you call the fire department. You shouldn't have to when you are sick and need to see a doctor. That is what Medicare for All will deliver.