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Bernie Sanders: “Drug companies make an enormous amount of money.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 45:49

The function of insurance companies is not to provide health care. It is to make a lot of money. And they do make a lot of money. Drug companies make an enormous amount of money. And it saddens me very much that we have a system which everybody recognizes is broken, it is dysfunctional, it is enormously complicated. (45:49–45:53)

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