“The stock prices of massive pharmaceutical companies tumbled because we are pushing to make health care a human right for every American. Corporate greed has no place in health care.”

—  Bernie Sanders

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/SenSanders (24 April 2019)
2010s, 2019, April 2019

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American politician, senator for Vermont 1941

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