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Bernie Sanders: “We have an unbelievably complicated system in which we spend…”

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

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Bernie Sanders Grills Panel on Universal Health Coverage

Published | Video Starts at 02:48

We spend close to 15,000. Somehow they manage to provide health care to all people. Now, one of the reasons clearly that health care in America is so very expensive is that We have an unbelievably complicated system in which we spend a fortune on administrative costs. I would hope that most of us agree that when we spend a dollar on health care, we want to go to a doctor, to a nurse, to prescription drugs, not to some bureaucratic who is telling a doctor what he or she cannot do. (02:48–02:58)

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Asserts that the U.S. health care system is complicated and costly due to administrative expenses.

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