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09/15/2023 Baldwin, Sanders, Wyden Lead Colleagues Pushing Biden Administration to Continue Strengthening Protections Against "Junk" Insurance Plans
05/17/2023 NEWS: Sanders, Jayapal, Dingell More Than 120 Colleagues in House and Senate Reintroduce Medicare for All
05/12/2023 MEDIA ADVISORY: Sanders and Jayapal to Hold Town Hall on Medicare for All at U.S. Capitol
05/04/2023 NEWS: Sanders and Klobuchar Reintroduce Legislation to Cut Drug Prices in Half
02/08/2023 NEWS: In Remarks to Advocates, Sanders Proposes Major Expansion of Community Health Centers
06/21/2022 Letter to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Murphy, Blumenthal, Senate Colleagues Urge Expanded Dental Health Coverage
05/13/2022 Tweet - "The United States has the most dysfunctional, inefficient, bureaucratic and expensive health care system in the world. It's time for Medicare for All."
05/12/2022 PREPARED REMARKS: Chairman Sanders Opening Statement at Hearing on Medicare for All
05/12/2022 NEWS: Sanders Introduces Medicare for All with 14 Colleagues in the Senate
05/09/2022 Tweet - "We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation but with worse health outcomes for our people. Does that make sense to anyone? It's time for Medicare for All."
02/16/2022 Letter to Hon. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Hon. Marty Walsh, Secretary of Labor, and Hon. Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury - Kaine Joins Colleagues in Effort to Crack Down on Insurance Companies That Illegally Deny Women Access to Birth Control
02/16/2022 Letter to Secretary Becerra, Secretary Walsh, and Secretary Yellen - Van Hollen, Hassan Crack Down on Insurance Companies That Illegally Deny Women Access to Birth Control
02/15/2022 Letter to Hon. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Warner & Kaine Join Senate Colleagues in Urging Biden Administration to Limit Junk Health Plans
02/14/2022 Letter to Hon. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Warner & Kaine Join Senate Colleagues in Urging Biden Administration to Limit Junk Health Plans
01/31/2022 Tweet - "The American people are asking: who does Congress represent? 84% of the American people support expanding Medicare to include dental, vision, and hearing care. We must deliver."
01/25/2022 Letter to Hon. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services and Hon Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Gillibrand, Colleagues Urge Biden Administration To Require Medicare To Pay For Rapid Covid Tests
01/24/2022 Letter to Hon. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and Hon. Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Menendez, Colleagues Urge Biden Administration To Require Medicare To Cover Costs For Rapid COVID-19 Tests
01/11/2022 Sanders Statement on Medicare Limiting Coverage for Alzheimer's Drug
12/26/2021 Tweet - "This pandemic makes it clear how dysfunctional our healthcare system is. Not only do we pay the highest prices in the world, we can't even produce the number of doctors and nurses that we desperately need. Let us not give up the struggle for Medicare for All."
12/16/2021 Tweet - "Unless action is taken soon Medicare premiums will skyrocket in order to cover a questionable Alzheimer's drug, Aduhelm, that costs $56,000 a year. That is insane. We must stop this premium hike on 57 million seniors now. Time is running out."
06/23/2021 Data for Progress - Voters Are Right: It's Time to Expand Medicare
05/11/2021 The Washington Post - We Must Fix the Gaping Holes in Medicare
05/03/2021 The Guardian - Big Pharma doesn't want us to expand Medicare. We have to fight them
04/28/2021 NEWS: New GAO Study Finds U.S. Pays Two to Four Times More for Prescription Drugs than Other Nations
04/25/2021 Letter to Hon. Joe Biden, President of the US - Gillibrand, Colleagues Introduce Medicare At 50 Act
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