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The American People Pay the Highest Prices in the World For Lifesaving Prescription Drugs That They Helped Create Report shows, over the last 20 years, the average price of new medical treatments that NIH scientists helped invent is $111,000 – more than ten times the price that led the NIH to first introduce a reasonable pricing clause in 1989. WASHINGTON,

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and the Vermont Department of Public Service today announced $1 million in federal funding will soon come to Vermont to establish sustainable energy projects at elementary, middle, and high schools across the state – as well as municipal buildings such as public libraries and town halls. The funds were secured by

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will be joined by hundreds of Vermonters for an outdoor town meeting and hike at Barnes Camp Visitor Center on Saturday, June 10.  “One of my favorite parts of living in our state is enjoying the beauty of our great outdoors,” said Sanders. “I organized this event to bring people of

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and AARP-VT will hold a town meeting on Friday, June 9 to hear directly from older Vermonters about the issues that matter most to them.  The event is a special hybrid in-person and telephone town meeting. Older Vermonters are invited to join Sanders in person at the Montpelier Senior Activity Center,

Companies’ Plan to Charge $26,500 Per Year Could Bankrupt Medicare and America’s Seniors WASHINGTON, June 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Wednesday sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra urging the Biden Administration to protect patients and act to substantially reduce the

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy and other panelists to testify WASHINGTON, June 6 – The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), will hold a hearing Thursday, June 8 at 10:00 a.m. ET titled, “Why Are So Many American Youth in a Mental Health Crisis? Exploring Causes and Solutions.” In 2021, the