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Bernie Sanders: “The insurance companies are making billions, Drug companies…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 42:38

All right. I don't know. Got a couple hundred people. One person thinks it's not broken. You got it. All right. That's all right. It is working. The insurance companies are making billions, Drug companies are making billions. That's the way it was designed to work, but it's not. I don't care if you're a conservative Republican, you're progressive socialist, whatever you may be. The system is broken. (42:38–42:42)

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Asserts that insurance and drug companies are making billions of dollars.

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