Bernie Sanders Supports Type 1 Diabetes Patients

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Senator Bernie Sanders shows his support for patients with type 1 diabetes. The Democratic Party presidential candidate will travel to Canada on Sunday, July 28, with a group of people with type 1 diabetes to buy insulin at a lower price than in U. S. The purpose of the trip - in addition to showing his support for people affected by this disease who will travel with him by bus to Canada - is to criticize the corporate ambition that reigns in the American health system, according to his electoral campaign.

In 2000, Sanders made similar trips with breast cancer patients to Canada, advocating for health care reform that would make treatments and medications more affordable for patients. The healthcare system in Canada is publicly funded, and Sanders criticizes the privatized healthcare system in the United States.

On their 2000 journey with breast cancer sufferers, patients were able to buy medicine in Canada at one-tenth the price they would pay in their Vermont state. According to a statement from the Sanders campaign - who will face Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States in 2020 - the price of insulin in the United States has risen almost double in recent years, although it is still available at a much higher price. bass in Canada.

The senator will accompany members of the Insulin4All organization and patients with type 1 diabetes on this trip. The Sanders campaign statement adds that the pharmaceutical industry in the United States has multi-million dollar annual profits, while many citizens cannot afford the high cost of their medications.