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By Lia Chien; Vermont Public At a town hall meeting Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders heard from older Vermonters about their urgent needs and priorities, including workforce shortages, universal health care and nutrition programs. The event, sponsored by Vermont AARP, was held at the Montpelier Senior Activity Center and was livestreamed across the state. Sanders began the meeting by touching on

By Dan Diamond; The Washington Post  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the Senate health panel, is vowing to not move forward with President Biden’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health — or any health nominee — until he receives the administration’s “comprehensive” plan on lowering drug prices. “I will oppose all nominations until we have a very

Analysis by Rachel Roubein with research by McKenzie Beard; The Washington Post Bernie Sanders urges HHS to take action on the price of Alzheimer’s drug. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pressing the federal health department to take action on the price of an Alzheimer’s drug. A federal appeals court seemed skeptical of a nationwide pause on Obamacare’s no-cost preventive service

By: Daniel Payne and Burgess Everett; Politico His effort is the latest sign the progressive stalwart is toggling between his activist persona while pressing for a deal on what he thinks can pass a narrowly divided Senate. Sen. Bernie Sanders is launching his latest push as one of the Senate’s most powerful committee chairs: to pour nearly $200 billion of

By: Kara Voght; The Washington Post He didn’t get to be president, but the senator from Vermont is spending his twilight years doing what he loves: Publicly grilling CEOs Bernie Sanders sits in the conference room of his Capitol Hill office wearing an unfamiliar countenance: The senator is beaming. He slaps a sheet of printer paper onto the table in

By: Jeff Amy; AP ATLANTA — To train more Black doctors, the federal government needs to bolster funding and make more training slots available for historically Black medical schools, leaders of those universities told U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday. “Our HBCU medical schools are the backbone of training Black doctors in this country.” Dr. Hugh Mighty, Howard University’s senior