On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders responded to a new study showing that major health services companies made $2.7 trillion in profits and spent $2.6 trillion on share buybacks and dividends between 2001 and 22. I vowed to take on a level that doesn't exist. The greed of our health care system companies. ”
The study, published this week by the American Medical Association Journal, states that “the majority of US medical expenses do not enhance affordable access, improve quality of care, or advance research; We focused on growing concerns that it appears to be directed towards corporate shareholders. Development.
Sanders (I-Vt.) – A ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Profit, $2.6 trillion, not to make Americans healthy, but to indecently enrich CEOs and shareholders. ”
“The function of a reasonable healthcare system is to ensure quality healthcare for everyone, not large payments to shareholders and executives in the drug and insurance industry,” Sanders argued. “None of this money was used to improve new treatments and treatments, lower prices, or improve patient care. That has to change.”
The Senator continued:
The study confirms that the largest waste, fraud and abuse in the country is corporate greed. Unfortunately, instead of working with Congress on this real issue, (US President Donald) Trump and (Government Efficiency Bureau leader Elon) Musk launched an immoral and unconstitutional attack on the Department of Health and Human Services.
Instead of taking on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry, Trump and Musk are stealing AIDS treatment from the poor.
Instead of joining the for-profit insurance industry, Trump and Musk make it even more difficult for working-class Americans to get the health care they need through Medicaid and Community Health Centers.
“This absurdity must end,” Sanders emphasized. “As a ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, I will do everything I can to take on unprecedented levels of corporate greed in the health system.”
Last month, Sanders called for the nomination of a democratic president on a Medicare-centric platform for all, twice, depending on the variation of health and human services secretary candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , abolished the 9-point “American Health” plan. About Trump's “Make America Great Again” slogan.
