Bernie Sanders blasted for tanking bill to help pediatric cancer patients: ‘For leverage’
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Lefty Sen. Bernie Sanders is facing a storm of backlash for blocking the Senate from fast-tracking legislation aimed at helping pediatric cancer patients by giving them access to comprehensive drug treatments .
The bleeding-heart liberal from Vermont was the sole vote against passing the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act on Wednesday, demanding a quid pro quo be attached to it for more funding for other efforts such as community health centers.
A unanimous vote in the chamber would have allowed the bill to bypass several steps, which typically involve the committee process and rules for debate, to move it straight along.
Sanders’ vote ensured the bipartisan cancer package won’t clear the Senate before Christmas and forces the upper chamber to now undergo the more procedurally intensive process to make the bipartisan bill law.
Given that the bill had already unanimously cleared the House, it only needed to get through the Senate before going straight to President Trump’s desk for his signature.
“Bernie Sanders killed a bill to help pediatric cancer patients. Why? For ‘leverage.'” White House Deputy chief of staff James Blair chided on X.
“He should be ashamed of himself. Democrats are sick, sick people.”
The bipartisan Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act, which cleared the House unanimously earlier this month, makes reforms to ensure children with cancer can get access to key treatments and participate in clinical trials.
The measure also extends the Pediatric Priority Review Voucher Program to incentivize companies to develop more therapies for pediatric ailments.
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Democrats hate children with cancer.
So Bernie Sannders speaks for all democrats now? And the only reason he would vote no is that he hates children with cancer, therefore democrats hate children with cancer? Doesn’t NT have rules about broad brushing? Moronic hate speech like this is not a good look for a forum.
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Bernie Sanders is one person, meanwhile I assume you were making reference to some random comment about how nearly the entire Republican Congress will do nothing at all to stop this administration from making health insurance a financial impossibility for millions of Americans, which obviously will have massive impacts in the near future. Once again your idiotic comparisons fail miserably.
That you would defend insulting Republicans as hating children after throwing a fit about how inappropriate it is to say it about Democrats was the most predicable thing ever.
Seriously? Do you not pay attention to what is said on this forum? What comes from the LEFT on this forum?
[removed] [✘] He is in on a very short list of scumbags who I will say that about. But I am one person and I don’t make the claim that anyone else should feel that way. Your whatabout is another total failure in comparison.
Thanks for proving my point.
One person is an opinion. You and your fellow Trump sycophants express grotesque opinions here every day. Sean was obviously not expressing a logical opinion, he was broad brushing the entire Democrat party in the most subhuman way possible - by making the claim that all Democrats hate kids with cancer. To make a claim that Republicans don’t care about the lives of low income folks is entirely logical given the circumstances where millions are about to lose access to healthcare because Republicans refuse to take action. You are an idiot if you can’t see that.
I think you meant "fixing the subsidy program that DEMOCRATS voted on and to expire at the end of this year."
Yet another mess Republicans have to clean up from the dementia boy and DEO VP debacle four years.
Couch it however you want, but it won’t change the fact that millions will lose their access to healthcare because the vast majority of Republicans in Congress refuse to stop it from happening. Notice how I didn’t say all Republicans? There are a handful that are not willfully blind to the reality of the situation like you are.
Aside from your insults, in which we all expect, I believe subsidies should go to the people who TRULY need them and that they are WELL vetted to ensure they are not trying to game the system.
We don't need a democrat run Somalia scheme countrywide.
Lets not forget if the fraud were cleaned up the people that truly needed it may get a bigger piece of the pie.
Some democrats seem to hate children with cancer. Better now?
Personal opinion or not, i's a perfect example of "Moronic hate speech". You only get your panties in a wad if it comes from somebody you don't like.[✘]
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Let's look at this a little closer....
What does Sanders want? According to The Bulwark (definitely not a liberal publication...):
So it's not like he disagreed with what the bill stands for, but...
So Sanders wants to negotiate a bigger better bill to help more people. Oh... my... god... It certainly sounds like Sanders hate's sick children! /s
The Bulwark article has something I agree with - (bolding mine)
I am not a Sanders fan. Sanders could, and perhaps should have allowed the bill to pass. Let's not forget -
Does Paul Rand also hate sick children? Probably not...
It puts $ 1.2 B into a certain Medicare account...
OH MY! Sanders isn't against sick kids? He just wants money allocated in, what he thinks, is a better way.
Sen Mullins killed bring up the amendment that would allow voting on those new provision
Mullins killed bring up new amendments that would also allow the old bipartisan ideas that would expand healthcare and dental into underserved rural areas. Does Mullins hate sick rural people, many who are his own constituents?
My point... is that politics is complicated and it sucks - I'm pointing fingers at the whole body instead of playing partisan party games.