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Bernie Sanders: “There are 1800 well paid lobbyists representing the drug…”

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

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Bernie Sanders Interview Lex Fridman Podcast #450

Published | Video Starts at 07:36

Over a thousand? Yeah. There are 100 members of the Senate, 435 members of the House, 535 members of Congress. There are 1800 well paid lobbyists representing the drug companies, including former leaders of the Republican and Democratic Party. That is why one of the reasons why we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, military industrial complex, you got a revolving door. (07:36–07:46)

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