Posted on 03/09/2020 6:59:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Monday pledged that he will provide all Americans with a free vaccine for coronavirus if he is elected president.
Addressing supporters in St. Louis on the eve of the Missouri primary contest, Sanders assailed Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar for saying the Trump administration cannot control the price of the vaccine “because we need the private sector to invest.”
“We are uniquely prepared to take on a pharmaceutical industry which in some cases charges us ten times more for the same exact drug that’s sold abroad,” Sanders began.
“Let me tell you, if elected president, everybody in this country will get that [coronavirus] vaccine absolutely free,” he then said.
“Is that a radical statement? I mean that is the most obvious statement that anybody can make,” he added.
Later in his remarks, Sanders noted New York state’s efforts of using prison labor to produce hand sanitizer in an effort to offset alleged price gouging by Amazon, eBay, and others as the coronavirus continues to spread in the United States.
“I just learned a few moments ago that in New York State the government is doing the right thing. They are manufacturing disinfectant, for hand washing, to make sure that everybody will be able to get the Purell or whatever they need,” Sanders said.
“What they’re saying is, they are telling the manufacturers today to stop the price-gouging. And they’re manufacturing it. And we are prepared to say that to the pharmaceutical industry: stop ripping off the American people,” he added.
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If he promises everyone a beach house in Florida, he’s got my vote!!
The guy who was going to close all prisons and let out all prisoners just changed his mind?
Is Bernie offering me his compound on Lake Champlain for free for a couple of weeks this summer?
I accept...
You think he might be able to offer free flying cars, too?
Is he going to nationalize all the drug manufacturers?... Or just talk them into doing tens or hundreds of millions of R & D and manufacturing it at no charge.
Or maybe he will get his good buddy Raul Castro to mobilize Cuba’s wonderful health care system to provide it to us out of the goodness of their hearts.
What is BS Bernie going to do when it's PAY-UP time for all that he's promised!
Mothers of Invention: Absolutely Free.
He can make free Grey Poupon a right. Doesn’t mean everyone will get it.
Like I said, it is hard to compete with Santa Clause
Going to make some hand sanitizer.
I am all for having prisoners do something productive.
We always have big rocks that need to be made into little rocks.
If Bernie will give me 500k out of HIS pocket and not the taxpayers then I will tell him I’ll vote for him. (fingers crossed behind my back)
How nice of him to promise people who vote for him that they’ll get my money.
If it were really free, the pharmaceutical companies would stop working on it right now.
Everything is free!!!
NOTHING is “absolutely free”. you old commie bastard.
Sure Bernie. If I had the vacci e I would personally tell you to go f yourself, and make it overseas where they will pay for it!
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