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Bernie Sanders: “The United States of America, the richest country on earth…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 45:23

And finally, do you anticipate single payer systems like NIH or Medicare for all to potentially minimize these abuses? To answer your question, it is totally absurd and embarrassing that The United States of America, the richest country on earth, is the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right. The function of insurance companies is not to provide health care. It is to make a lot of money. And they do make a lot of money. (45:23–45:32)

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Asserts that the U.S. is the only major country not guaranteeing health care as a human right.

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