Sanders votes Against HHS nominee Azar

Vermont Business Magazine Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) issued the following statement Wednesday after voting against the confirmation of Alex Azar's assecretary of health and human services: "The nomination of Alex Azar, who ran Eli Lilly’s U.S. operations over the last decade, shows that Trump’s campaign promises to lower drug prices were nothing more than empty campaign rhetoric. During Mr. Azar’s tenure at Eli Lilly, the price of its insulin drug more than doubled and Eli Lilly was fined more than $2 billion. We need a secretary of HHS who is willing to take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and lower prescription drug prices, not one who is part of a corrupt system."

Source:WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 – Sen. Bernie Sanders