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Bernie Sanders: “We don't have nurses.”

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

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Bernie Sanders Discusses Politics, Wealth Inequality, and Healthcare on Flagrant Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 51:17

What I'm getting at is, you know, I'm the former chairman of a committee that deals with all this stuff. So we don't have enough doctors in America. We don't have nurses. We don't have enough dentists. I brought in several billion dollars into the state of Vermont for infrastructure, to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. We did that all over America. (51:17–51:19)

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Asserts that there is a shortage of nurses in the United States.

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