[laughter] lahey for the field pitch and let me thank ben jerrys and i want to thank them not just for the great ice cream that they produce which we have eaten too much of over these showingy years but for what a progressive business can be like. [applause] in vermont, Everybody Knows them. Ben jerrys treats their employees with respect. They have been a staunch ally of our family farmers during difficult times. They have been a protector of the environment and they have virtuallyhere for every important social justice fight in the last few years why want to thank ben jerrys for what they do. [applause] this is labor day. Of us do barbecues and have fun but its an important thing to recognize what this day is about. Thank the millions of men and women all over this country who do all the work that they do to help us live good and decent lives. We think our teachers and their thank ourworkers, we Police Officers, our andfighters, or emt folks all those people in health care. We thank the factory workers who produce the products that we need, the farmers who grow the food [applause] that we need. There is a lot of people to thank for make our communities keep our country going. Todays the day to honor them. Saying that im here in raymond today to ask for your support to win the democratic primary here in New Hampshire. With your help, we will do just that. [applause] and it goes without saying that i need your help to win the democratic nomination and it goes without saying that together, we are going to defeat the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country, donald trump. [applause] as ben just told you, in poll , there hasnt been a credible poll in the last your that is not had us ahead of trump. We were 14 points ahead of him and recent poll. Poll. A recent its a moment in history when we have got to get rid of that person in the white house and with your help, thats exactly what we are going to do. [applause] campaigners but this is more than just about defeating trump. Yourhat i am going to need help on is not just the election. I need your help the day after we are inaugurated. We hope to have a lot of buses from new england coming down to washington. [cheers and applause] we need your help, and i do not know if there is any other campaign that is going to ask this of you, but we need your help to take on the greed and corruption of the corporate elite who have been at war against the working class of this country for the last 45 years. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders as all of you know, the message of our me, and thats, not message is more than a Bumper Sticker, although i think we will have a Bumper Sticker with it. Profoundually a fairly message, and it says two things. It says that our understanding of what human life is about is not one in which we step on our friends and our neighbors and everybody in our community in order to make billions of dollars. We live, we cheat, we steal. In other words, somebody like a donald trump. That is not our vision of what life is about, to do terrible things and be selfish and greedy in order to make huge amounts of money. Our vision of human life is we are in this together, the struggle for decency, the struggle for all of us to have a good life, and that means that my family have got to be concerned about your family, and your family has got to be concerned about my family, and where to create a Society Nobody is left behind. [cheers and applause] that is what community means. That is what community means, and that is what i believe and i know most of you believe, but when we talked about us, not me, there is a point we are going to make, which is a point that youre not going to see on tv or the newspapers much, and that is the understanding that new president of the United States, not Bernie Sanders or body else, can do it alone no president of the United States, not Bernie Sanders or anybody else, can do it alone, because we are taking on a corporate elite that has unbelievable wealth and power and resources, and if we are serious about transforming this country and creating a government and an economy that work for all of, not just the 1 , the only way we do it is when millions of people come together and are prepared to stand up and fight back, and that is precisely what this campaign is about. [cheers and applause] so, in other words, i could give you a 10hour speech and tell you all of the wonderful things that i want to do, and you will nod your head, that is great, beautiful. That is what we need. That does not mean anything unless we are prepared to take on the greed and corruption of the corporate elite and the politicians in washington, and that is what the Political Revolution is about. It is bringing people together, blackandwhite and latino, native american, asian american, gay and straight, those of us born in america, those of us who immigrated to america, standing together to tell the corporate elite that this country belongs to all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors. [cheers and applause] and on this, on rememberr day, let us a very profound statement. I discovered this. I should have done it before. Discovered it just last month. My little grandson, somebody gave him a sign, and he held up the sign, and i impair fries and probably have gotten it a little bit wrong, a quote from and i probably have gotten a little bit wrong, a quote from nelson mandela, everything is impossible until it is done. Everything is impossible until it is done. What does that mean . That means the ideas we talk about today, people are, there are radical, extreme, nobody in and then we them, get them done, and it is, it is common sense. Of course. And i give you just a few examples of what that means that we are seeing with our own eyes. I came to new, hampshire, and i said, i got a radical, crazy, wild idea, my god, that maybe if you work 40 hours a week in vermont or New Hampshire, maybe you should not be living in poverty, and we should raise the minimum wage to a living wage of 15 an hour. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders and some of you may recall, oh, my god, the editorial writers, what are you talking about . The federal minimum wage is 7. 25, and you want to more than double it, and marijuana was not illegal. Was not legal then. That is another issue. We thank the people in New Hampshire for the great support they gave us, but what happened the country over was, you know what . People may think these ideas are crazy, the political establishment might think it is crazy, but i cannot make it on 10 or 11 an hour, and we have to ways the minimum wage to 15 an hour, we have to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour, and seven states have moved to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour. U. S. House of representatives have voted to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour, and we are going to demand that Mitch Mcconnell put my bill on the floor so that we can raise the minimum wage. [cheers and applause] so that idea is not so radical, and here is another idea that is not so radical, and that is in this country, women should not be making . 80 on the dollar compared to men. They deserve the whole damn dollar. [cheers and applause] and here is another idea which is not so radical, is that here on labor day, we acknowledge and know that many, many millions of American Workers want to join unions, but they are finding it very difficult because of all of the opposition, often illegal opposition, from their employers, and that is why we are going to pass legislation. It is called the workplace democracy act, which will make it easier for workers to join unions. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders then, we talk about what is going on in this country. There is another idea that we talked about four years ago that was seemingly off the charts, not acceptable. What i said then and i say now that for our young people to make it into the middle class, they need a good Higher Education, and that Higher Education must be available for all of our people regardless of their incomes. [cheers and applause] ago, heders four years talked about making public colleges and universities tuition free we talked about making public colleges and universities tuition free, and guess what is happening in california and new york and tennessee . They are moving precisely in that direction. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders and when we are in the white house, we are going to make that happen in every state in this country, and then there is another issue we talked about, and i will take it a little further during this campaign, and that is the insanity, and i use that word advisedly, that we tell our young people, go out, get a college education, and then they are stuck with a 50,000 or a 100,000 dollar debt that they are paying off not only year after year but decade after decade. I meet people who literally tell me that they are worried that their Social Security checks will be garnished. That is true. Their Social Security checks will be garnished in order to make sure they pay their student debt, and that is why i believe if we could bail out the crooks , ifall street 11 years ago trump and his friends could give well over 1 trillion in tax and large,he top 1 profitable corporations, such that you have the absurdity now of Companies Like amazon making pay 10 billion in profit nothing in federal income tax, you know what . The United States government can bend over backwards for the rich and the powerful, we can cancel all student debt in this country. [cheers and applause] and people say, my critics say my critics say, bernie, it is a great idea, but it is pretty expensive. How are you going to pay for it . That is a fair question. I will tell you precisely how we will pay for it. We will impose a modest tax on wall street speculation, which more than pays for making public colleges and universities tuition free and canceling all student debt in this country. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders now, there is which may be the issue most on the minds of the American People. To newars ago, i came hampshire and throughout another radical idea. Oh, my god, how many radical ideas can we deal with here . Simplyt idea was to suggest that maybe the United States of america should do what virtually every other major country on earth does and to guarantee health care to all people as a human right, not a privilege. [cheers and applause] well, i was told that that was a radical idea, something the American People would not accept. Checki would urge you to out all of the polling done in recent months, which shows that a majority of americans and an overwhelming majority of democrats believe in a medicare for all, singlepayer program. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders and i want to talk more andbit too why more americans are moving towards medicare for all, because they see every day as they experience the health care dysfunctionality and the barbarity, if you like, of the current system. They see it every day. It is not abstract. Let me give you an idea as to how crazy and absurd this system is. Just picked up the paper today. I flew in from houston, texas, and there was an article, i think it was the washington post, and it described, once again, talking about the terrible, terrible shooting that happened in odessa, texas, where people were killed. It turns out that one of the Police Officers who raced to the scene, who put his life on the line, was shot and wounded, and his family have since placed on the internet a gofundme request to pay for his medical bills. I mean, talk about insanity, a Police Officer puts his life on the line to protect people, and now, the family is going to have to raise money to pay for the care that he gets. We have a Health Care System pay, and it iswe important to know this, we spend twice as much per person on oflth care as do the people any other industrialized country. 11,000 alose to year, twice what our neighbors up north in canada are spending, and this is what you get with spending far more than any other country on earth. Whogot 87 Million People are uninsured or underinsured, and the keyword word here is underinsured, because a lot of politicians will say, well, i want to provide insurance for everybody. Insurance does not mean a damn thing if it does not cover you when you need to be covered. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders so this is what you have got today, and it is not just that Police Officer in texas. This is what you have got today. You have got millions of people who even have insurance, but their deductibles are so high that they cannot afford to go to the doctor when they should, and then when they go to the doctor, the doctor says, why werent you here six months ago when he first got your symptoms . And the patient says, well, i did not have insurance or i could not afford the insurance to foot the bill. Some will get sicker that they should, and some will die. We lose 30,000 people a year unnecessarily because they did not go to the Doctors Office when they should. Is something equally crazy. This is unbelievable. When you stop and you think about it, and what this campaign is about is asking the American People to take a deep breath and think about things in a way that congress does not approach it or the media does not approach it. Over 500,000 people in our country went bankrupt because they could not pay their medical bills. Now, think. If somebody is diagnosed with cancer, what a shock that is. You are diagnosed with a bad heart. You need major surgery. Somebody in the family has alzheimers disease. You are dealing, you are reeling with a serious illness, and your family is like, how do . I get back on my feet again . What dr. Do i go to . That is what people are thinking about when they get a serious illness, but in this country, they are having to think about something else, which is, what happens if i go into the hospital for two months and come out with a 100,000 bill . 500,000 people in this country go bankrupt not because they blew their money on a casino in in las vegas, they lost it because of cancer or Heart Disease or some terrible illness. That is not what a democratic, Civilized Society is about, and we are going to end that barbarity. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders but here is the point. Here is the essence of the issue, and that is we have a Health Care System today, or i should say a health care nons ystem. What is the function of the Health Care System today . Let me ask you. To make money. Everybody knows that. What is the function of the Insurance Company or the Drug Companies question mark Everybody Knows it. So here is the story. The story is with 87 Million People insured or underinsured, with us spending twice as much as the people of any other developed country, last year, the top 10 Drug Companies made 69 billion in profit. And they made that profit because they charged us, by far, by far, the highest prices in the world for the Prescription Drugs that we need. Last month, i took a trip to canada with a bunch of folks in the midwest who are diabetic. And they needed insulin. We went to windsor, ontario, and we bought the same exact product in canada that is sold at the for one 10th the price, and the reason we pay 10 times more than the canadians for insulin is that not only do we have greed in the american Prescription Drug industry, the pharmaceutical industry, you have corruption and pricefixing. Turns out that three companies manufacture 90 of the insulin, and just coincidentally, coincidentally, their prices soar at exactly the same time. That is called corruption, and people die because they cannot get the medicine they need. I do not know about in vermont but i am sure here in New Hampshire, you have old people cutting their Prescription Drugs in half, and then the Insurance Companies, the top five may 20 3 billion. They give these guys huge compensation packages. A guy that was the head of aetna insurance. He orchestrated the merger of aetna with cvs, the big drug chain. Do you know what he got orchestrating that . Anybody want to guess . Million bonus of your health care dollars. And on and on it goes, the Companies Making zillions of dollars in compensation every year. So you add it all together, and what they will do, and they are and i do nott now, know if the ads are on in New Hampshire, and that is they will demonize me personally, and they will attack medicare for all. And you know why . Because we are challenging their 100 billion and we are saying that the function of health care in a Civilized Society is to provide quality care to all in a costeffective way, not to have wall street and the Insurance Companies make billions in profits. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders so when you see the ads, when you see the ads on tv, attacking me or attacking medicare for all, understand who is paying for those ads. They are very nervous, because, finally, we are challenging their right to rip off the American People while they make billions and billions in profit. Now, what is medicare for all . What does it mean . And i should tell you i wish i could tell you i invented this idea. I did not. We stole a lot of it from other countries, often from canada, and this is what it means. What it means is we are doing away with all premiums in this country. Neither you nor your employer is going to have to pay a monthly premium. We are doing away with all copayments. When you walk into the Doctors Office, youre not going to have to pay a copayment. We are doing away with all outofpocket expenses. We are doing away with the fact that when you leave the hospital, you will not have to pay a nickel. Not a radical idea. That is exactly what goes on in canada. You get a heart transplant in canada, you leave the hospital, you do not pay a nickel. That should be the case in america today. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders well, people say, well, bernie, that is very nice, very expensive. How are you going to pay for it . We are already paying for it. Every premium you are paying a month, you pay, what, 5,000, 10,000 in premiums. Every outofpocket dollar you are paying, you are paying for it. Every outrages Prescription Drug outrageous Prescription Drug price you are paying, you are paying for it. And we will no longer allow the pharmaceutical industry to charge us anything that they want. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders what we do, instead of paying the Insurance Companies call it a premium. You can call it a tax. You can call it whatever you want it. We are going to get rid of all of that stuff, and what we will do is end up with a situation where medicare for all is paid for out of the tax base of this country in a progressive way, which will mean that the overwhelming majority of people in this country will be paying far less for health care under medicare for all than they are paying today. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders ok, what i want to do now there is a lot of other issues out there. I do not want to go on forever, but i want to stay on this issue of health care. Talk to me about health care. Talk to me about whether you can afford health care. Talk to me about what the impact of premiums and outofpocket expenses. Talk to me about anything you want, people may not go to the doctor because they may not have enough money. Lets hear a little about of the experiences that people are having. I see your hand. Right over there. Maam . Can we get her a mic . No, no, no, the woman right here. Right here. Maam, just give us your name. Hold that mic close to your mouth. My name is elaine, and i am from toronto, canada, and i am here to tell you sen. Sanders hold the mic hold the mic close to your mouth. Turn the mic on. Elaine universal Health Care Works in canada. We do not have to worry if we break a leg or get alzheimers or have Heart Disease or anything, and we have heard a lot of fear mongering in canada. It is absolutely not true. We have one of the best systems in the world. I live in toronto, one of these safest cities in north america and the sixth safest city in the world, and so i can tell you sen. Sanders do you work for the Toronto Chamber of commerce . No, i do not. I work for one of the largest colleges in canada. Sen. Sanders let me ask you this question. Elaine yes. Sen. Sanders your name is . Elaine elaine. Sen. Sanders somebody has a serious illness for one month in the hospital. How much do they pay when they get out . Zero. Sen. Sanders ok. Elaine you pay for parking. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders ok. Now, you will hear mark my words. I mean you will hear a lot of fear mongering, as elaine said, on the Canadian Health system. Is it perfect . No, no system is perfect. You can always pick a system apart. At the end of the day, what the canadians have done, and, by the way, what people all over the world have done, is to say that health care is a human right, whether you are rich or poor, and that is the goal that we must achieve. Alright, i want to talk a little bit we have not talked about this too often. You know you are a workingclass , person, making 40,000, 50,000 a year. What percentage of your income are you paying you are laughing because that is too much. Alright, lets make it 30,000. What percentage of your income are you paying . What does it mean to pay for health care in america . I know it is hard to get up in front of these tv cameras and talk about it. Anyone want to comment on that . I see a hand right back there, a woman with a baby. Here is the mic. Give us your name, please. My name is caitlin, and i am a teacher, in a union, and a lot of people have been talking about how it is not fair to give other People Health care, because unions have fought for health care, which we want everyone to have health care and everyone to have a fair shot, but i do want to say that my employer and i together pay 31,000 per year for Health Insurance to the Insurance Companies. Sen. Sanders say that again. How much is your family . Caitlin i have four people in my family. My percentage i think is around 12,000, and the rest is my employer, so together, it is 31,000. Sen. Sanders i want everyone here to hear what caitlin had said. You are a teacher, probably not making millions, thank you, and i am not going to ask you how much you make. I know you make millions. I read that someplace. [laughter] sen. Sanders you are paying for your health care 12,000 a year. You are paying, ok, which is a pretty good percentage of your total income, yes . Ok. All right. Thank you. That is what i am talking about. That is what i am talking about, and you do not hear that discussion on tv too often. Bernies idea is really expensive. You are paying 12,000, that is really expensive. You will pay less, and your employer will pay less. [applause] sen. Sanders ok, lets get a little more discussion on that issue. Lets get this man a mic. Hold that to your mouth. I have a question about medicare for all. [indiscernible] sen. Sanders yes, you did not pay for it . [indiscernible] [indiscernible] here, we dont, so while i trust you, and you can go in, what about other people supporting your idea . Sen. Sanders but that is what the struggle is about here. You say, and we can talk about what goes on in scandinavia. You say people in this country, you are right, do not have confidence in the government. Well, it is your government, and what we are trying to do, and what this Political Revolution is about, and it is not easy and i do not mean to be overly rhetorical here we have to restore confidence in the government, because we have to create a government that works for us and not just for billionaires and wealthy campaign contributors. That is what this whole fight is about. I mean, are we somehow stupider than the people in canada or the people in the u. K. Or france or germany . Somehow or other, they managed to run goodquality Health Care Systems that guarantee health care to all people and at a significantly lesser cost per capita than we do. Are we dumber than they are . I dont think so. We can do it. We can do it. But we have to have the guts here to take on the health care industry, which will tell you everything under the sun about why we cannot do it. All right . That is really what this struggle is about. I see a hand, a woman, right back there. Yes. Name is emily. I am 25. I recently got married and am an entrepreneur. Years undiagnosed with lyme disease, with my parents paying hundreds of thousands of dollars. My disease is one of the most common vectorborne diseases in the United States, and it is not covered by insurance past 30 days. What do you plan to do about that . Sen. Sanders lets be clear. You have just given another example. Why is it covered for 30 days . Do you know why . Emily there is a lot of controversy within the cdc. Sen. Sanders oh yes . Are you or are you not ill with lyme disease . Emily i am. Sen. Sanders do you need treatment . Emily i do, but the cdc does not believe i need treatment beyond the 30 days of antibiotics. Sen. Sanders actually, as i was flying in today from texas, and the guy next to me was a retired doctor, practicing in manchester, and one of the issues that doctors are sick and tired of is arguing with Insurance Companies about whether or not they can treat their patients the way they want, and patients are sick and tired with arguing with Insurance Companies, so to answer your question [applause] we arenders what talking about in medicare for all is comprehensive, underlined, comprehensive health care that not only covers everybody but covers all health care needs, by the way, including hearing aids,. Ncluding eyeglasses we are going to expand what medicare covers today. Emily thank you. Sen. Sanders other questions. Where is the mic . There is a woman here in blue. Maam . Thank you very much. sgarding the gentleman remark, my stepdaughter married somebody, and she is raising a family there, and i do not know if you know anything about belgium, but she taught me that the belgian government is kind , and he adores safety and she does not worry about changing jobs. Sick, it isis covered, and the amount of know whatou do not you do not have, because you do not have it. Sen. Sanders what is your name . I am sorry. Teresa. You, teresa, thank for saying it better than i could, and teresa said it better, and again, this is not pie in the sky. This is what goes on in belgium, north of us a few miles. What it means, what teresa is , is that there are millions of people in this country who are staying at their jobs today not because they like those jobs but because they got Decent Health care for their families. All right . Means. Bout what it you can do the work you want, youif your unemployed, and have it because it is a human right. Stay in a jobe to you do not once. When you have a baby, you do not have to worry about paying a 2000 bill for having a baby, and again, when we do that, when we get rid of the greed of the Insurance Companies and the Drug Companies and all of the bureaucracy and the hundreds of billions of dollars in administrative waste in the current system, we can cover all people in an extremely , and it will way cost the overwhelming majority of americans, everybody else much less than they are paying right now. Other thoughts on health care . Alright, i see a woman back there, right under the cameras. I am pediatrician, stayathome mom right now. For the money we are paying, we have one of the highest Maternal Death rates, which is shameful. Sen. Sanders you said you are a pediatrician . Yes. Sen. Sanders absolutely right. Our infant mortality rate, our Maternal Mortality rate, especially for africanamerican women, just unbelievable numbers. Do you think that is . Prenatal care is very important, and women should have prenatal care before they get pregnant, and at the earliest, when they know they are pregnant, and they often present later, despite the fact that women are covered by medicaid, but they are not covered until they become pregnant. The second piece is that infant mortality and eternal mortality is a multicultural issue, and factors play a role. Life stresses play a role. And all of these are not mitigated by our current system. In addition, other nations have visits both before and after the child is born for at least two years, and that has been shown to save lives. And all of this Bernie Sanders event Available Online at cspan. Org. We will take you back to New Hampshire for a gathering with Center Elizabeth warren. You dont have to worry enough alley low you, carly thank and others. I also want to say a very special thank you to pam and dennis for opening up their backyard for all of. What a beautiful way to do democracy, so [applause] sen. Warren i am so glad