Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a Democratic presidential candidate for 2020, traveled to Canada July 28 with about 12 people with diabetes — and many more reporters — to illustrate the issue of high drug prices in the U.S., The New York Times reports.
The bus started in Detroit and dropped passengers off at a pharmacy just over the border, where people with diabetes could stock up on insulin. One woman told The New York Times prices were 90 percent cheaper in Canada.
While some of the patients had made this trip before, the ordeal was part publicity stunt, according to the report. The bus had more reporters than patients on it, and the reporters had to be "shepherded" in and out of the pharmacy in groups. Mr. Sanders made a similar trek in 1999 from Vermont for women who had breast cancer, according to the report.
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