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Bernie Sanders: “About one in four people who go to their doctor's office and…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Bernie Sanders campaigning for Kamala Harris, Baraboo, Wisconsin

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The function of a rational system is to provide quality care to every man, woman and child. Today in America, About one in four people who go to their doctor's office and get a prescription can't afford to fill it. because the prices of the prescription drugs are so high. A couple of years ago, I took a trip from the midwest, from Detroit into Windsor, Ontario, with a group of people who were dealing with diabetes. (44:00–44:09)

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Asserts that 25% of people in the U.S. cannot afford to fill their prescriptions.

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