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Bernie Sanders: “The function of the American health care system...is to…”

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

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Rep. AOC and Senator Sanders Join CNN Town Hall to Discuss Republicans' Government Shutdown

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Insurance companies make tens of millions of dollars. They pay their CEOs 20, $30 million a year. The function of the American health care system, and Mr. Johnson is not going to address it, The function of the American health care system...is to guarantee huge profits for the drug companies and the insurance companies. and they could care less about the needs of ordinary people. Well, and I know you and I have discussed before, there are areas with the president lowering drug prices … (56:48–56:59)

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Asserts that the U.S. health care system prioritizes profits for drug and insurance companies.

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