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By: Meg Tirrell, Tami Luhby; CNN While grilling Novo Nordisk’s chief executive over the price of its blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy, on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders alleged that 40,000 people a year in the US could die if the company doesn’t make the medicines more affordable. “From a moral perspective, does it bother you knowing that keeping

By: Jake Johnson; Common Dreams “Even though he may be able to afford some of the most expensive lawyers in America—no, Dr. de la Torre is not above the law,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. A U.S. Senate panel led by Sen. Bernie Sanders voted Thursday in favor of holding Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre in civil and criminal

By: Lisa Mascaro; AP News WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders is preparing several resolutions that would stop more than $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Israel, a longshot effort but the most substantive pushback yet from Congress over the devastation in Gaza ahead of the first year anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war. In a letter to Senate colleagues on Wednesday, Sanders said the U.S.

By: STEVE LeBLANC, AP News BOSTON (AP) — Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday he is prepared to pursue contempt charges against Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre if he fails to show up at a hearing Thursday despite being issued a subpoena. Sanders said de la Torre needs to answer to the American people about how he was able

By: Bret Wilkins; Common Dreams “Dr. de la Torre will be held accountable for his greed and the damage he has caused the American people and our nation’s healthcare system.” Taking aim at Steward Health Care CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre’s refusal to comply with a Senate subpoena, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday said the committee he chairs will still hold a hearing

By: Jessica Corbett; Common Dreams “The legislation that we have introduced finally recognizes that long Covid is a public health emergency and provides an historic investment into research, development, and education,” he said. Over four months after seeking public comments on long Covid legislation, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday unveiled a bill to help tackle the crisis “that is affecting more than