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Bernie Sanders: “Make Medicare more efficient, expand it, and then gradually…”

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

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Bernie Sanders on Healthcare Expenditure Waste

Published | Video Starts at 00:54

And they will fight you to the. Death, fight you to the death to. Give up that. Lucrative industry. So, you know, basically I think what. We should do is. Make Medicare more efficient, expand it, and then gradually cover all of our people through a Medicare program. Get rid of the profiteering, get rid. Of the billing, get rid of the. Complexity. My wife has. A PhD. She goes crazy trying to figure out our health care bills, Right? (00:54–01:00)

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Advocates for expanding Medicare to cover all Americans.

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