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Bernie Sanders: “In America, we pay by far the highest prices in the world…”

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

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It means that our life expectancy is four years later lower than OECD countries, that if you're working class, it's a lot lower than that. It means that In America, we pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. It means that we don't have enough doctors or nurses or psychologists or pharmacists or dentists, despite all of the money that we're spending now. That's the Bad news. (16:24–16:29)

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Asserts that the U.S. pays the highest prices globally for prescription drugs.

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