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Bernie Sanders: “If the goal of the insurance company is to make as much…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 25:17

And there is anger against the insurance industry. You know, if you just. It doesn't take, you know, a PhD in economics to figure this out. If the goal of the insurance company is to make as much money as possible, the more claims they reject, the more money they make. And that's what they do. And they use artificial intelligence to help them along their merry way where they tell doctors what they can do or not or what drugs they can or cannot prescribe. (25:17–25:27)

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Asserts that insurance companies profit by rejecting more claims.

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