I Didn't Ask Your Opinion': Sanders and Mullin Throw Down In Tense Hearing Spat

"Yet the definition of insanity is what? Doing the same thing, expecting different results. So we should just sit here and accept it? And how dare we look into vaccines? Mullin fumed, adding: To just simply look to see if maybe vaccines may be a partial cause to autism when it's rising at a rate faster than any country in the nation. How dare us look at science?"

"I'm not a doctor. I'm no senator trying to say we shouldn't do something. I'm saying let's go after it, let's look at it, let's question what we're doing, let's look at the health care system. We can agree on that one. I just don't want to socialize it, but we can agree that it is absolutely not affordable. 100% not affordable, yet it was supposed to be affordable."

"So how about we work together and say, hey, let's scrap ACA, admit it doesn't work, admit you guys made a mistake, and let's work on something with President Trump to make health care affordable for everybody. But there's zero chance you guys could do that. Zero chance."

During a confirmation hearing for U.S. Surgeon General nominee Casey Means, Senator Mullin criticized Senator Sanders for opposing efforts to examine and reform the healthcare system. Mullin argued that questioning current practices, including investigating potential vaccine-autism connections, represents legitimate scientific inquiry rather than recklessness. He contended that the Affordable Care Act failed to deliver affordable healthcare as promised and called for scrapping it in favor of new solutions developed with President Trump. Mullin emphasized that examining health issues and seeking improvements should not be controversial, and he expressed frustration that Democrats consistently oppose any attempts to change existing health policies.

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