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Abdul El-Sayed: “We owe $225 billion in medical debt.”

Featuring: Abdul El-Sayed, Podcast Host, America Dissected | National

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Published | Video Starts at 05:20

The fact that the deductibles, the premiums have gotten way too high because of people like Mike Rogers who take checks from the private insurance industry and then fail to regulate them. So they keep upping the prices on people, putting people into bankruptcy. We owe $225 billion in medical debt. I want to know what Mike Rogers wants to do about that. I want to abolish it, and I want to make sure that every single person in this country has the health care that they need and deserve. (05:20–05:23)

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Asserts that the U.S. has a significant amount of medical debt.

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