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Bernie Sanders: “Japan spends less than $6,000 [per person on health care]…”

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

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Bernie Sanders Grills Panel on Universal Health Coverage

Published | Video Starts at 02:20

Maybe we asked somebody from France to come here to explain to us how they guarantee health care to all people as a human right, spending less than half of we spend Canada, UK, Japan, Japan spends less than $6,000 [per person on health care]. We spend close to 15,000. Somehow they manage to provide health care to all people. Now, one of the reasons clearly that health care in America is so very expensive is that we have an unbelievably complicated system in which we spend a fortune on administrative costs. (02:20–02:37)

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Asserts that Japan spends less than $6,000 per person on health care, while the U.S. spends close to $15,000.

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