Poor people in the developing world have a right to medicine | Bernie Sanders

People should not die because of their income or where they were born. We must have the courage to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry

Here is a simple moral proposition. No one in America, or anywhere in the world, should die or suffer unnecessarily because they cannot afford a prescription drug which, in many cases, costs a few cents or a few dollars to manufacture.

As Chairman of the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (Help) I'm going to do everything I can to develop a new approach to the development and manufacturing of prescription drugs that responds to medical need, rather than short-term shareholder profit. Given the power and greed of the pharmaceutical industry this is not an easy task, but it's one that must be pursued.

Bernie Sanders is a US Senator, and chairman of the health education labor and pensions committee. He represents the state of Vermont, and is the longest-serving independent in the history of Congress