Bernie Sanders's New Campaign: Taking On Big Pharma and Starbucks

As the new chair of a powerful Senate committee, the reënergized progressive leader is once again targeting the corporate plutocracy: "We have to pick on the incredible greed of the pharmaceutical industry, who make huge profits every year and pay their C.E.O.s huge salaries and compensation packages;" the American health-care system is “dysfunctional and broken, nearly twice as costly as the systems in other industrialized countries, yet leaving eighty-five million Americans uninsured or underinsured. That’s something we are going to go into big time.” But “I think the first thing we have to do is to talk to the American people about what is going on in our economy, and that is something Congress or the media does not do very often!