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Bernie Sanders: “Top 10 [drug] companies made over $100 billion last year.”

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

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Bernie Sanders Discussing American Corporations in Pennsylvania

Published | Video Starts at 01:08

All right, so what you got is the drug companies that charge you the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, by far. It's an issue we've been working on with some success. Top 10 [drug] companies made over $100 billion last year. 100 billion insurance companies making enormous sums of money. So the system is working very well for the people who own the system. (01:08–01:12)

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Asserts that the top 10 drug companies earned over $100 billion in the previous year.

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