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Bernie Sanders: “There is no reason, no reason other than greed and politics…”

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

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LIVE_ Bernie Sanders on the Dangers of Our For-Profit Health Care System

Published | Video Starts at 05:03

It was an important day for human civilization. And given today, when we are so much richer in this country than the UK was in 1952 after the war, There is no reason, no reason other than greed and politics why health care should not be a human right for all. Well, I do want to give Dr. Fisher a chance to either respond to that or even ask a follow up question of his own. (05:03–05:11)

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Asserts that greed and politics are the only reasons preventing health care from being a universal right.

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