The function is to make billions in profits for the insurance companies. And the drug companies. And that is what's happening. So the major corporations in healthcare are doing phenomenally well. Meanwhile, We are spending as a nation more than twice as much per capita as you spend in the UK and double what most other countries spend. And yet we have 85 million people who are uninsured or underinsured, and our life expectancy is actually going down, having started much below many other countries. (10:38–10:47)
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