Congress Must Address America’s Health-Care Crisis

By: Bernie Sanders; The Daily Beast Almost everyone in America understands that our health-care system is broken, dysfunctional and getting worse. We spend almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation, nearly $13,000, and an unsustainable 18.3 percent of our GDP. Yet, we remain the only major country not to guarantee health care to all—leaving 85 million

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Climate change is a threat to the planet: We must address it

We can still avoid the worst impacts of climate change, save money, and make energy grid more resilient By: Bernie Sanders; Fox News Obviously, climate change is not real. I’ve heard, you’ve heard, “expert” after “expert” telling us for years how climate change is a “fraud.”  We’ve heard from our friends at the oil companies who made $196 billion in profits last year

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While the world burns, fossil fuel CEOs are lining their pockets

By Bernie Sanders; MSNBC Those most responsible for this global crisis must finally be held accountable. In recent days, nearly two-thirds of the population of the United States of America has been under either a flood warning or watch or a heat advisory. Temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean are the highest ever recorded. Wildfires ravage parts of Greece. A typhoon

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The Pentagon doesn’t need $886bn. I oppose this bloated defense budget

By Bernie Sanders; The Guardian As a nation, the time is long overdue for fundamental changes to our national priorities. The US Senate is now debating an $886bn defense authorization bill. Unless there are major changes to the bill, I intend to vote against it. Here’s why. As everyone knows, our country faces enormous crises. As a result of climate

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