9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen with a free cspan radio app. Senator Bernie Sanders met with voters at a town hall in New Hampshire, one of several events he is holding in the Granite State this labor day weekend. He had he is introduced by a Campaign Organizer and the founders of ben jerrys ice cream. This is almost 90 minutes. Hello. Hi. Woo [applause] i have a question for you. Are you feeling the burn . [crowd cheering] it is so nice having an actual applause to that, i practiced in my room. Hi, everyone. Im erin. I am the field organizer for the Sanders Campaign here. Im from durham. Durham, New Hampshire. Not too far from here. I have really deep roots in New Hampshire. Dover, my mom is from manchester, from the west side. My grandfather taught at unh. My mom is a teacher in farmington. I loved growing up here. I couldnt have picked a better place to grow up. I kind of want to talk about growing up a little bit with you guys today. Growing up can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. For myself and my generation, it included learning things like our planet is dying. I was in middle school when i learned about Climate Change. I learned about pollution and i learned all about Greenhouse Gases and recycling. I was 12 when i heard we were hurdling towards a turning point in which our planet was permanently damaged. I learned about the way history shape society, the way it continues to shape society. I learned how people born into different circumstances than myself, whether race, class, ability or anything else may have to work 5, 10, 100 times harder than i do to achieve the same level of success. I remember learning one of the best predictors of a persons future income is the zip code in which they were born. Can you guys hear me . Ok. I had summer jobs growing up. I also worked at a fancy golf club. I had coworkers that i learned from and i learned they were working working multiple jobs and still struggling to afford rent. I learned for the first time that there were people who did not have health care who avoided going to the doctor when they were sick. I would learn soon that they were far from the only one. In my 20s, i learned may be most important thing of all, which is that all the stories are connected. The single mom struggling to put food on the table and a young black man caught in the school to prison pipeline and indigenous folks being driven from their land due to climate disaster are all suffering at the hands of the same system. This is a system that benefits the wealthy and powerful few at the expense of the rest of us. It is disgusting. It was around this time in my 20s when i first heard about Bernie Sanders. Woo [applause] erin maybe it was meant to be. It was around that time i was learning all of this and it was the first time i had heard a politician who was calling out what i was seeing and what i was learning about and wasnt afraid of calling out the people and groups upholding this. Bernie sanders has been fighting for folks like you and me for 40 years. At this point in history, right now, electing Bernie Sanders, who is our champion for medicare for all, the Green New Deal and criminal Justice Reform cannot be any more important than it is today. How do we do it . That is why im talking to you guys today. The Campaign Slogan is not me, us. Thats not just with a whole campaign is about, of course it is. But its also a roadmap for how we win. This is a grassroots movement. That means it starts here and starts with us. We are going to win New Hampshire and we are going to win the white house by knocking on doors, i making calls, by by making calls, by sharing our stories. That is what i am here asking all of you for today. Please volunteer with us. We want to you, we need you. We are going to elect Bernie Sanders and we need your help to do it. Thank you, guys. [applause] erin thank you. And now it is my distinct honor to introduce two men who share this vision. [applause] hello. Jerry hello. Im jerry, this is ben. For once in our 40 Year Partnership i get to go first, which is incredibly exciting. I might not even give the mic over to ben. I dont know. [laughter] jerry as we say we are tremendously excited to be here, tremendously excited to be scooping ice cream. I do have to give my standard disclaimer that ben jerrys, the company, does not support any political candidates or any political parties. They did not give the ice cream. However, i do have to say that ben and i personally do support political candidates. [applause] jerry and we are all in for bernie. [applause] it is interesting. We have never campaigned for a president ial candidate before. Thats because there has never been anyone like bernie before. He is completely unique. Ben and i have been constituents of bernies for over 30 years in vermont, starting when he was first elected mayor of burlington in 1981. We have seen firsthand how consistent and unwavering bernie is in fighting for everyday working people that nobody else has ever done. Bernie understands our country and our government needs to work for everyday people and not just for the ultrawealthy and the giant multinational corporations that give hundreds of millions of dollars in Campaign Contributions and lobbying. We are out doing everything we can. We are scooping ice cream, we are on the road. Thing that strikes me so much is that bernie is not for sale. He has never been for sale. [applause] jerry his campaign is fueled by small donations from all of us, and that is how we are going to win. Totally thrilled to be here. I guess im going to have to turn the microphone over to ben. Thank you guys so much. [applause] it was a joy to be scooping ice cream for all of you bernie supporters. I cant think of a better use of ben and jerry, the individuals, than to support a guy like bernie. Its interesting, aaron erin mentioned that bernie is the first politician she found that supported what she believes in. Shes lucky, shes in her 20s. Hes also the first politician i found that supports what i believe in, and im in my late 60s. [applause] finally, a reason to vote. Before bernie, jerry and i used to be the most famous guys on from vermont. [laughter] ben we are so happy to give that mantle up to bernie. Because ice cream is good, but a president ial candidate who truly believes in justice in all its flavors, that is euphoric. [applause] ben jerry mentioned a big reason we are here, the reason we are here is that we witnessed bernie, his entire political career from the time he was elected mayor in 1981. He has been true to his values and beliefs the whole time. He has been talking about so much of the stuff that is now generally talked about, starting in 1981. He has a vision for our country and its simple. What would our country be like if it was run for the benefit of regular Everyday Americans . [applause] i just want to go through a brief history that illustrates what this man is about. When he first came in as mayor it was an upset election, he unseated a democratic old crony machine mayor and won the election by 10 votes. I was there at the victory party. Let me tell you, it was a great party that will surely be exceeded. [applause] he came in as mayor and the mayor before him had set up a deal with the Business Developers in town that he was going to sell the lakefront from burlington to them and they were going to put up highrise very expensive condominiums that would have privatized the entire lakefront of burlington. Bernie came in talking about something i had never heard of before, the right of public access. He fought to those developers up through the courts in vermont and he won. Today we have the most beautiful public park with a boathouse open to the entire city. [applause] ben then when he was elected congressman, one of his first busload of take a women with Breast Cancer over the border into canada so that they could buy the Prescription Medications they needed at 1 10 the price. [applause] ben then when he became elected senator, he voted against the war in iraq. I guess he did that when he was a congressman too. There were a couple wars there. I think about six months ago he introduced the stop bezos act, and that was stop at biz next executives by zeroing out subsidies Business Executives by zeroing out subsidies. The idea of these huge multinational businesses are being paid so little that they need to get on medicaid and other benefits from the government in order to have a level of living they could live on. The idea was those businesses would have to reimburse the government for those expenses that were essentially subsidizing the business. Businesses. A month after he introduced it, the head of amazon, raised their minimum wage to 15 an hour. [applause] ben when it comes down to it, i know and you know, Everybody Knows, bernie knows, that the most important thing for any democrat, and i think a whole lot of independents, is beating trump. Selecting a candidate that can beat trump. [applause] ben and the reality that is not in the general Public Discourse is in poll after poll after poll , when they do these headtohead matchups, bernie beats trump. [applause] ben bernie beats trump. Bernie beats trump. Bernie beats trump. Trump]g bernie beats ben and i promise that when we get bernie elected and jerry and i become the ministers of ice cream, i promise a pint in every in every bowl. Ae ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce the one, the only, the original and still champion, senator Bernie Sanders. [applause] [crowd cheering] [chanting bernie ] sen. Sanders thank you. Let me thank all of you for coming out. Let me thank in tangled strings for their music. [applause] sen. Sanders there is my jacket. All right. Can we put the someplace. Put that someplace. There we go. I would like to thank erin for the field pitch, and ben and jerry. I want to thank them not just for the great ice cream they produce, which we have eaten too much of over the last many what abut for showing progressive business can be like. [applause] in vermont, Everybody Knows that ben and jerry treats their employees with respect. They have been a staunch ally of our family farmers during very difficult times. They have been a protector of the environment. And they have been out there for virtually every important social justice fight. I just want to thank ben and jerry for what they do. [applause] sen. Sanders this is labor day, and most of us have barbecues and a lot of fun. It is important to recognize what this day is about. Today we thank the millions of men and women who do all the work that they do to help us live good and decent lives. We thank our teachers and our childcare workers, our Police Officers, our firefighters, our emt. Folks in all the people in health care. We thank the factory workers who produce the products we need, the farmers who grow the food that we need. [applause] sen. Sanders theres a lot of people to thank who make our communities great and who keep our country going, and today is the day to honor them. It goes without saying that im here in raymond today to ask for your support to win the democratic primary here in New Hampshire. With your help we are going to do just that. [applause] sen. Sanders and it goes without saying that i need your help to win the democratic nomination. And it goes without saying that together we are going to defeat most dangerous president in the modern history of this country, donald trump. [applause] justsanders and as ben told you in poll after poll, in , fact i dont think there has been a credible poll done in the it is certainly a moment in history when we have to get rid of that person in the white house. And with your help that is exactly what we are going to do. [applause] sen. Sanders but this campaign is more than just about defeating trump. What im going to need your help on is not just the election. Im going to need your help the day after we are inaugurated. And we hope to have a lot of buses from new england come down to washington. [applause] sen. Sanders we need your help, and i dont know if theres any other campaign thats going to ask this of you. We need your help to take on the greed and corruption of the corporate elite. Who have been at war against the working class of this country for the last 45 years. [applause] as all of you know, the message of our campaign is us, not me. That message is more than just a number sticker. Although i think we will have a Bumper Sticker with it. Its actually a fairly profound message. It says two things. It says our understanding of what human life is about is not one in which we step on our friends and neighbors and everybody in our community to make billions of dollars. That we live, that we cheat, and steal. In other words, somebody like a donald trump. That is not our vision of what life is about, to do terrible things, to be selfish and greedy in order to make a huge amount of money. Our vision of human life is that we are in this together, the struggle for decency, the struggle for all of us to have a good life, and that means that my family has got to be concerned about your family, and your family has got to be concerned about my family, and we try to create a society where nobody is left behind. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders that is what community means. That is what community means, and that is what i, and i know most of you, believe, but when we talk about us, not me, it is there is another point we are making which is a point you will not see much on tv or in the newspapers. And that is the understanding that no president of the United States, not Bernie Sanders or anybody else, can do it alone. All right . Because we are taking on a corporate elite that has unbelievable wealth and power and resources, and if we are serious about transforming this country and creating a government and an economy that work for all of us, not just the 1 , the only way we do it is when millions of people come together and are prepared to stand up and fight back, and that is precisely what this campaign is about. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders so, in other words, i could give you a 10 hour speech and tell you all of the wonderful things that i want to do, and that is great, a great idea, beautiful. That is what we need. It does not mean anything unless we are prepared to take on the greed and corruption of the corporate elite and the politicians in washington, and that is what the Political Revolution is about. It is bringing people together, black and white and latino, native americans, asian americans, gay and straight, those of us born in america, those of us who immigrate to america, standing together to tell the corporate elite that this country belongs to all of a to all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors. [cheers and applause] day,sanders on this labor let us remember a very profound statement. I discovered this and should have before. I discovered it last month. My grandson, someone gave him a sign, and i am paraphrasing it, so i might get it a little bit wrong, a quote from Nelson Mandela, and Nelson Mandela said something to the effect of everything is impossible until it is done. Everything is impossible until it is done. What what does that mean what does that mean what does that mean . It means that the ideas we talk about today, people say, they are radical, you cannot do it, it is extreme, no one in america wants them, until they get done. And then they say, of course, we can do it. What is the problem . [applause] sen. Sanders and i give you a few examples that we are seeing with our own eyes. Four years ago, i came to New Hampshire, and i said, i have got a radical, crazy, wild idea that maybe if you work 40 hours a week in vermont and New Hampshire, maybe you should not be living in poverty, and we should raise the minimum wage to a living range of 15 an hour. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders and some of you may recall, oh, my god, the editorial writers and says, bernie, what are you talking about . The federal minimum wage is 7. 25 an hour. You want to more than double that is another issue. What happened . We thank the people in New Hampshire for the great support you gave us, what happened here, all over this country, people said, you know what . The media might think these ideas are crazy. The political establishment might think these ideas are crazy, but i cannot make it on 10 or 11 an hour, and we have to raise that minimum wage to 15 an hour, and you know what has happened in the last years to that crazy and wild and extremist idea . Seven states have raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour, and the u. S. House of representatives have voted to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour, and we are going to demand that Mitch Mcconnell put my bill on the floor so that we can raise the minimum wage. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders so that idea was not so radical, and here is another idea which is not radical. And that is that in this country, women should not be making . 80 on the dollar compared to men. They deserve the whole damn dollar. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders and here is another idea which is not so radical. Here on labor day, we acknowledge and know that many, many millions of American Workers want to join unions. But they are finding it very difficult because of all of the opposition, all of the illegal opposition, from their employers, and that is why we are going to pass legislation for the workplace democracy act, which will make it easier for workers to join unions. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders then we talk about what is going on in this country. Here is another idea that we talked about four years ago that was seemingly, again, off the charts, not acceptable, but i said then, and i say now, that for our young people to make it into the middle class, they need a good Higher Education, and that Higher Education must be available to all of our people, regardless of their incomes. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders four years ago, we talked about making public colleges and universities tuition free, and guess what is happening in california and in new york and in tennessee . They are moving precisely in that direction. And when we are in the white house, we are going to make that happen in every state in this country, and then there is another issue we talked about, and i am taking it a little bit further during this campaign, and that is the insanity, and i use that word advisedly, that we tell our young people, go out, get a college education, and then they are stuck with a 50,000 or a 100,000 dollars debt that they are paying off not only year after year but decade after decade. I meet people who literally tell me that they are worried that their Social Security checks will be garnished. That is true. Their Social Security checks will be garnished in order to make sure that they pay their student debt. And that is why i believe if we could bailout the crooks on wall street 11 years ago, if trump and his friends could give well over 1 trillion in tax breaks to the top 1 and large, profitable corporations, such that you have the absurdity now of Companies Like amazon making over 10 billion in profits and paying nothing in federal income tax you know what . The United States government can bend over backwards for the rich and powerful. We can cancel all student debt in this country. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders and people say, my critics say, my critics say, bernie, great idea, but it is pretty expensive. How are you going to pay for it . And that is a fair question. I will tell you precisely how we will pay for it. We will impose a modest tax on wall street speculation, which more than pays for making public colleges and universities tuition free and canceling all student debt in this country. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders now, there is another issue out there, which may be the issue most on the minds of the American People. Four years ago, i came to New Hampshire and throughout another radical idea. Oh, my god, how many radical ideas can we deal with here . And that idea was to simply suggest that maybe the United States of america should do what virtually every other major country on earth does and guarantee health care to all people as a human right, not a privilege. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders well, i was told that that was a radical idea, something the American People would not accept. Well, i would urge you to check out all of the polling done in recent months, which shows that a majority of americans and an overwhelming majority of democrats believe in a medicare for all, singlepayer program. [applause] sen. Sanders and i want to talk a little bit about why more and more americans are moving towards medicare for all. Because they see every day as they experience the Health Care System the dysfunctionality and the barbarity, if you like, of the current system. They see it every day. It is not abstract. Let me give you an idea of how crazy and absurd this system is. Just picked up the paper today. I flew in from houston, texas. And there was an article, i think it was the washington post, and it described, once again, the terrible, terrible shooting that took place in odessa, texas, five people killed. It turns out that one of the Police Officers that raced to the scene, who put his life on the line, was shot, and his family has since placed on the internet a gofundme request to pay for his medical bills. I mean, talk about insanity, a Police Officer with his life on the line to protect people, and now the families going to have to raise money to pay for the care that he gets. We have a Health Care System today in which we pay, and it is important to know this, we spend twice as much per person on health care as do the people of any other industrialized country. We spend close to 11,000 a year, twice what our neighbors up north in canada are spending, and this is what you get for spending far more than any other country on earth. You have got 87 Million People who are uninsured or underinsured, and the keyword here is underinsured, because a lot of politicians will say, well, i want to provide insurance to everybody. Insurance does not mean a damn thing if it does not cover you when you need to be covered. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders so this is what you have got today, and it is not just that Police Officer in texas. This is what you have got today. You have millions of people who even have insurance, but their deductibles are so high that they cannot afford to go to the doctor when they should, and then when they go to the doctor, the doctor says, why werent you here six months ago when you first got your symptoms . And the patient says, well, i do not have insurance or i was underinsured, and i could not pay the bill. We lose as a nation 30,000 people a year unnecessarily because they did not go to the Doctors Office when they should. Here is something equally crazy. This is unbelievable. When you stop and you think about it, and what this campaign is about is asking the American People to take a deep breath and think about things in a way that congress does not approach it or the media does not approach it. Last year, over 500,000 people in our country went bankrupt because they could not pay their medical bills. Now, think. If somebody is diagnosed with cancer, what a shock that is. You are diagnosed with a bad heart, you need major surgery. Somebody in the family has alzheimers disease, and you are dealing and reeling with a serious illness, and you are thinking and your family are thinking, how do i get well . What doctor do i go to . What medicine do i take . That is what people think about when they have a serious illness, but in this country, they have to think about something else, and that is, what happens if i go to the hospital and come out with a 200,000 bill . And the answer is 500,000 people in this country go bankrupt, not because they blew their money on a casino in las vegas. They went bankrupt because they had cancer or Heart Disease or some terrible illness. That is not what a democratic, Civilized Society is about, and we are going to end that barbarity. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders but here is the point. Here is the essence. And that is we have a Health Care System today, or, i should say, a health care nonsystem. What is the function today of the Health Care System . To make money. Everybody knows that. What is the function of an Insurance Company . Everybody knows that. So here is the story. With 87 Million People uninsured or underinsured, with us spending twice as much as the people of any other developed country, last year, the top 10 Drug Companies made 69 billion in profit. And they made that profit because they charge us by far, by far, the highest prices in the world for the Prescription Drugs that we need. Last month, i took a trip to canada with a bunch of folks in the midwest who are diabetic, and they needed insulin. We went to windsor, ontario, and we bought the same exact product in canada that is sold in the United States for 1 10th the price. 1 10th the price. And the reason we pay 10 times more than canadians for insulin is that not only do you have greed in the american Prescription Drug industry, the pharmaceutical industry, you have corruption and pricefixing. It turns out that three companies manufacture 90 of the insulin, and just coincidentally, coincidentally, their prices soar at exactly the same time, and people die because they cannot get their medicine. Here in New Hampshire, you have older people cutting their Prescription Drugs in half, and then you have Insurance Companies, the top five made 23 billion in profit. They give these guys huge compensation packages. The guy the head of aetna insurance, he orchestrated the merger of aetna with cvs, the big drug chain. Do you know what he got orchestrating that question when anybody want to guess . He got a 500 million bonus of your health care dollars. And on and on it goes, the Companies Making zillions of dollars in compensation every year. So you added altogether, the Healthcare Industry last year made more than 100 billion in profit, and what they will do, and they are doing it right now. I do not know if the ads are on in New Hampshire. They will demonize me personally, and they will attack medicare for all. And you know why . Because we are challenging their 100 billion in profit, and we are saying that the function of health care in a Civilized Society is to provide quality care to all in a costeffective way, not to have wall street and the Insurance Companies make billions in profits. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders so when you see the ads, when you see the ads on tv, attacking me or attacking medicare for all, understand who is paying for those ads. They are very nervous, because, finally, we are challenging their right to rip off the American People while they make billions and billions in profit. Now, what is medicare for all . What does it mean . And i should tell you i wish i could tell you i invented this idea. I did not. We stole a lot of it from other countries, often from canada, and this is what it means. What it means is we are doing away with all premiums in this country. Neither you nor your employer is going to have to pay a monthly premium. We are doing away with all copayments. When you walk into the Doctors Office, youre not going to have to pay a copayment. We are doing away with all outofpocket expenses. We are doing away with the fact that when you leave the hospital, you will not have to pay a nickel. Not a radical idea. That is exactly what goes on in canada. You get a heart transplant in canada, you leave the hospital, you do not pay a nickel. That should be the case in america today. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders well, people say, well, bernie, that is very nice, very expensive. How are you going to pay for it . We are already paying for it. You are paying premiums, thousands. Every outofpocket dollar, you are paying for it. Every outrageous Prescription Drug price you are paying, you are paying for it. And we will no longer allow the pharmaceutical industry to charge us anything that they want. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders what we do, instead of paying the Insurance Companies call it a premium. You can call it a tax. You can call it whatever you want it. We will get rid of it and end up with a situation where medicare for all is paid for out of the tax base of this country in a progressive way, which will mean that the overwhelming majority of people in this country will be paying far less for health care under medicare for all than they are paying today. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders ok, what i want to do now there is a lot of other issues out there. I do not want to go on forever, but i want to stay on this issue of health care. Talk to me about health care. Talk to me about whether you can afford health care. Talk to me about what the effects are of premiums and outofpocket expenses. Talk to me about anything you want. People may not go to the doctor because they cannot go to the doctor lets hear a little about of the experiences that people are having. I see your hand. Maam . Can we get her a mic . No, no, no, the woman right here. Maam, just give us your name. Hold that mic close to your mouth. My name is elaine, and i am from toronto, canada, and i am here to tell you sen. Sanders hold the mic close to your mouth. Turn the mic on. Universal Health Care Works in canada. We do not have to worry if we break a leg or get alzheimers or have Heart Disease or anything, and we have heard a lot of fear mongering in canada. It is absolutely not true. We have one of the best systems in the world. I live in toronto, one of these safest cities in north america and the second safest city in the world, and so i can tell you sen. Sanders do you work for the Toronto Chamber of commerce . No, i do not. I work for one of the largest colleges in canada. Sen. Sanders and your name is elaine. Sen. Sanders somebody has a serious illness for one month in the hospital. How much do they pay when they get out . Zero. You pay for parking. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders ok. Now, you will hear mark my words. You will hear a lot of attacks, fear mongering, as elanie said, on the Canadian Health system. Is it perfect . No, no system is perfect. You can always pick a system apart. But at the end of the day, and something people all over the world have done, is to say that health care is a human right, whether you are rich or poor, and that is the goal that we must achieve. All right, i want to talk a little bit we have not talked about this too often. You are a workingclass person, making 40,000, 50,000 a year. What portion are you ok, you are laughing because that is too much. All right, lets make it 30,000. What does it mean to pay for health care in america . I know it is hard to get up in front of these tv cameras and talk about it. Anyone want to comment on that . I see a hand right back there, a woman with a baby. Here is the mic. Give us your name, please. My name is caitlin, and i am a teacher, in a union, and a lot of people are talking about how it is not fair to give other People Health care, and unions have fought for health care, we want everyone to have health care and everyone to have a fair shot, but i do want to say that my employer and i pay 31,000 per year for Health Insurance to the Insurance Companies. Sen. Sanders say that again. How much is your family . I have four people in my family. My percentage i think is around 12,000, and the rest is my employer, sit together, it is 31,000. Sen. Sanders i want everyone here to hear what caitlin had said for you are a teacher, probably not making millions, thank you, and i am not going to ask you how much you make. I know you make millions. You are paying for your health care 12,000 a year. You are paying, ok, which is a pretty good percentage of your total income, yes . Thank you. That is what i am talking about. That is what i am talking about, and you do not hear that discussion on tv too often. Bernies idea is really expensive. You pay 12,000, that is really expensive. You will pay less, and your employer will pay less. [applause] sen. Sanders ok, lets get a little more discussion. Lets get this man a mic. Hold that to your mouth. I have a question about medicare for all. [indiscernible] sen. Sanders yes, you did not pay for it . But here, one way to [indiscernible] here, we dont, so while i trust you, and you can go in, what about other people supporting your idea . Sen. Sanders but that is what the struggle is about here. You said, and we can talk about what goes on in scandinavia. You say people in this country, you are right, do not have confidence in the government. Well, it is your government, and what we are trying to do, and what this Political Revolution is about, and it is not easy i am not trying to be rhetorical here we have to restore confidence in the government, because we have to have a government that works for us and not just for billionaires and wealthy campaign contributors. That is what this whole fight is about. I mean, are we somehow stupider than the people in canada or the people in the u. K. Or france or germany . Somehow or other, they managed to run goodquality Health Care Systems that guarantee health care to all people and at a significantly lesser cost per capita. We can do it. We can do it. But we have to have the guts here to take on the Health Care Industry, which will tell you everything under the sun about why we cannot do it. Right . That is really what this struggle is about. I see a hand, it woman, right back there. Got a mic . I am an entrepreneur and went undiagnosed for years with lyme disease, and this is the cost, where my parents paid well over 100,000 a year for. You talk about medicare for all, but my disease is one of the most common vectorborne diseases in the United States and is not covered by insurance past 30 days. What do you plan on doing about that . Sen. Sanders lets be clear. You are just giving me another example of the the government does not want to support it. One of the issues that the doctors are sick and tired of his whether or not the Insurance Companies can treat the patients they when they want to. Patients are sick and tired of arguing with Insurance Companies with regard to this. To answer your question, what we are talking about in Medicare Health is comprehensive care that not only covers everybody, it covers all health care. Is ncludes hearing care, eyeal care. Thank you. There is a woman here in the blue. Yes. Marriedepdaughter and she is belgium raising a family there. She taught me what the dozen government is saying. She adored the safety and freedom that she had with health care. She does not worry about changing any of this. When somebody is sick, it is covered. Freedom that you dont have. You just dont have it. What is your name . Teresa. Thank you teresa. She said it better than i say it. Saying this is not pie in the sky. Goes on in belgium. It goes on north of us a few miles. What teresa is saying is that there are millions of people in this country who are staying at their jobs today not because they like those jobs that because they get Decent Health care for their families. When about what it means you have health care. You can do the work you want. If you are unemployed or in transition, you still have health care because it is a human right. Freedom is the right word. That is all your shoulders. You dont have to stay at a job you want. You dont have to pay a 10,000 baby bill it you have a because of the greed of the Insurance Companies. When we get rid of that and the hundreds of billions of dollars in administrative waste in the current system, we can cover all people in an extremely copperheads of way. Competences comprehensive way. Other thoughts on health care . I am a pediatrician and stayathome mom right now. For the money we are paying, we one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. Sen. Sanders you are pediatrician . Yes. Sen. Sanders our infant mortality rate, our maternal rate, especially for africanamerican women is just unbelievable. Why do you think that is . Multiple factors. Prenatal care. Women should have prenatal care before they become pregnant. Despite the fact that women are covered by medicaid, they are not covered until they become pregnant. There are socioeconomic factors that play a role. All of these are not mitigated by our current system. Other nations have Home Visiting both prior and after the child is born for at least two years. That has been shown to save lives. Improved reports in development and School Performance for kids. In addition, mandatory prek and this report has been shown to improve medical outcomes and socioeconomic outcomes. This is just an anecdote. I took care of a child that is three years old and diagnosed with wise disease. She would not take the medicine by mouth. Medicine to give her over a long weekend at this one. At 2 00, many years ago, i argued with the Insurance Company about getting a medication for her as a standard of care for line disease. Lymes disease. That. Sed to do at 5 00, we stopped communicating. My request was refused. This little girl had to come in for three days in a row to get a shot in her leg, in order to get that antibiotic. It was a fellow position that refused a request. They referenced medical literature. Sen. Sanders thank you very much for what you are doing. We can go on and on about the dysfunctionality of the system. This is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Rateve an infant mortality that is the highest in the well despite spending so much money on health care, unbelievably, this is in a historical letter expectancy rate we are spending a fortune for a Health Care System that is not working for working people lost the Health Care Industry made 100 billion in profit last year. What all of this discussion about is about is we will have Health Care System guaranteeing Quality Health care. This will be once we moved to a medicare for all singlepayer program. [applause] let me just touch on a couple of other issues. If people are interested in selfies after that, we can do some of that. Us thatrump tells Climate Change is a hoax. In my view, donald trump is a hoax. [applause] sen. Sanders among all of the stupid things that he says every day, i have not read his native tweet. It came from our celfin knowledged genius. This one is not only dangerous, his belief that Climate Change , it is dangerous not only for our country but the entire world. Everybody here in this room understands that im a change is not a hoax. It is a very significant threat to the wellbeing of our country and the entire world. I am very proud to tell you that just last week, we introduced the most comprehensive Climate Change legislation ever introduced in this country. What it would do is transform our Energy System away from fossil fuel to Energy Efficiency and sustainable energy. What it will do is allow the United States to lead the world. We cannot do it alone. We have to work with all of the other countries. That is what i intend to do as president. This is an issue that cannot be swept aside. Quite clear. S are if we dont get our act together in the next few years, the damage done to this planet will be your reparable. Your reparable irrepairable. Not able to be prepared. Given what happened in texas, i am sorry i have to make this point. It is unbelievable, a few weeks about thearned terrible shooting that took place in el paso. I could happily that the next day we have to go through that again because of the shooting in dayton. We have another shooting in odessa, texas. On and on it goes. When you talk about the absurdity and congress, understand that the overwhelming majority of American People, understand that move forward on common gun safety legislation. This is not a radical idea. People want to expand background checks. People want to eliminate the gun show loophole. My ant to allow eliminate the strawman provision. A majority of the American People want to do it. I talked about this years ago. I want to ban the sale of assault weapons in this country. Let me repeat what i said when i started. Obviously, it goes without saying that we have to defeat donald trump. The National Poll that came out the other day. 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At 9 00, our documentary the senate, conflict and compromise. Brian lamb amy wax. Before i ask you questions about why we asked you to come here, i wanted to go through your background. Where are you from . Amy wax i was raised, born and is