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By: Jessica Tara; WCAX BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders hosted a round table in Burlington Friday afternoon to talk about health care costs in the state. It comes after the only insurers in Vermont’s marketplace this month proposed premium rate increases. If they are approved, Vermonters could see increases between 9% and 19%. Sanders says the proposed

By: Joseph Choi; The Hill Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are scrutinizing a data analytic firm over concerns the services it provides to insurance companies are leaving patients with “sky-high medical bills.” The senators issued a letter last week to Travis Dalton, president and CEO of the health care data analytics firm MultiPlan, stating their concerns over

By: Kevin McCallum; Seven Days In April, when U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) stepped up to the microphone on the Senate floor to denounce Israel’s war in Gaza, he brought along visual aids. On his right was a large photograph of an infant swaddled in a white blanket, with a face gaunt from hunger. On his left, an image of

By: Alexander Bolton; The Hill Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) on Monday defended the International Criminal Court (ICC) for seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant along with senior Hamas officials, breaking with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on the controversial issue. “The ICC prosecutor is right to take these actions.

By: Rachel Ohm; Portland Press Herald America spends more than other countries, yet millions of people are uninsured and underserved, the senator from Vermont said during his remarks at Saturday’s commencement. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at the University of New England’s commencement at Cross Insurance Arena on Saturday. He warned graduates in the medical field that they have their

By: Dan D’Ambrosio; Burlington Free Press The diabetes drug Ozempic and the weight-loss drug Wegovy could bankrupt America’s health care system, according to a report released by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, on Wednesday. The report from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which Sanders chairs, finds: If half of the adults with obesity in America took Wegovy and the other new weight