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Bernie Sanders: “Despite spending twice as much per person on health care…”

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

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Bernie Sanders campaigning for Kamala Harris, Baraboo, Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 36:46

This is why people are angry, and they should be angry. And I'll tell you something else that is almost never discussed, and that is in America today. Despite spending twice as much per person on health care as... almost any other country, our life expectancy... is lower. than every other major country. Do you all know that? We don't talk about it. So take a step. You step back and you think, okay, what do we want to accomplish as a society? (36:46)

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Asserts that the U.S. spends twice as much on health care per person but has lower life expectancy.

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