Posted on 02/26/2026 12:45:59 AM PST by Libloather
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin were involved in a heated back and forth during a Senate hearing Tuesday that sparked immediate reactions across social media.
"Everybody we bring up here, you guys chastised for trying to make changes," Mullin said during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing Wednesday. The committee was discussing issues with Obamacare during a hearing on the nomination of Casey Means as U.S. surgeon general.
"God forbid we change and try to fix our broken system," Mullin continued. "Anyway, I ranted too long."
As Mullin was attempting to return to the topic, he was cut off by Sanders, who said, "Yes, you did."
Mullin responded, "I'm sorry. I didn't ask your opinion on that, and if I cared about your opinion I would ask you. But I don't care about your opinion. You're part of the system. You're part of the problem. You've been sitting here longer than I've even been alive. This is your problem. You should have fixed this a long time ago. You've been railing on it for so long. What have you been doing?"
Sanders responded by sarcastically saying, "I decided not to run for surgeon general, You’re the nominee I’ve decided."
"That is definitely something we would never accept," Mullin said before moving on.
The exchange was quickly picked up by conservatives on social media, including from "Charlie Kirk Show" executive producer Andrew Kolvet, who wrote in a post on X that "things did not end well for the octogenarian socialist" after he took a "cheap shot" at Mullin.
"That’s what his commie supporters can’t figure out," comedian Tim Young posted on X. "Bernie has been in office so long that he should have solved their problems by now."
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“That’s what his commie supporters can’t figure out,” comedian Tim Young posted on X. “Bernie has been in office so long that he should have solved their problems by now.”
The swamp thrives on crisis. Thats why most of what they do politically makes things WORSE for their constituents. There is no incentive to “fix” things when you can destroy peoples lives with terrible policy and still be re-elected time after time simply because folks have been conditioned to do so by the media. Keep feeding them entitlements the nation cant afford and you can basically bribe them. Thats what Bernies voters want- free stuff from the govt.
Sure Bernie hasnt doesnt anything but obstruct in 25 years but Orange Man is bad.
Sanders is a commie grifter - made a fortune running for president and getting paid off to drop out.
For health care, bring on market force:
1. Break most hospitals into two highly competitive entities
2. Convert other hospitals into real estate leasing entities with competing surgical suites and nursing wings
3. Separate out drug coverage so hospital systems can run care coverage systems and cut out insurance company overhead and meddlers.
4. Create interstate drug plans that don’t have to pay want the drugmaker wants for every drug. To qualify for exchange listing and federal subsidies, they would have to most (~80% or more) in all important types (large volume recombinant, small volume recombinant, breakthroughs under patent, etc.). Group and exchange plans to offer time-limited vouchers at plan set amounts for out-of-formulary drugs. Voucher plans would have variable premiums. Plans without minimums (or vouchers) could be vended directly to individuals and families.
5. These plans would be all the doctors (and AI) prescribe for formulary drugs with co-pays equal to manufacturing cost
6. reform medical education, breaking down medicine and dentistry into simpler chunks and start it in the first year of college
7. replace most primary care doctoring with AI
(Insurers would pay human doctors to confirm AI diagnosis, orders for expensive tests[MRI, genetic], prescribe radiation imaging[CT, PET, X-ray]/treatment, and voucher/government co-pay drugs. Other human doctor care would be private pay.)
8. Radioisotope-related care would be at international airport centers
If he was a good commie he would give up his 3 multi million dollar homes and get a one bedroom apartment, like a good comrade.
A good, healthy dose of Somali, Congolese, El Salvadoran and other “refugees” straight into Vermont might change the voters’ minds when it comes to the likes of Sanders and other of his lefty ilk.
Bernie profits from ObamaCare and BigPharma, just like Fauxcahontas. Well, for that matter, any Democrat.
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