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Bernie Sanders: “The drug companies charge you the highest prices in the…”

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

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Bernie Sanders Discussing American Corporations in Pennsylvania

Published | Video Starts at 00:59

You have the companies that are in the politician's pocket, and the politicians are in the insurance company's pocket. So they benefit off of each other. Yeah. All right, so what you got is The drug companies charge you the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, by far. It's an issue we've been working on with some success. Top 10 companies made over $100 billion last year. 100 billion insurance companies making enormous sums of money. (00:59–01:07)

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Asserts that U.S. drug companies charge the highest prescription drug prices globally.

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