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Bernie Sanders: “We're spending about $400 billion a year dealing with…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 13:24

I think one out of five children in America is obese. And that translates into diabetes, which is, as you know, just a terrible illness impacting our country and very expensive to deal with. We're spending about $400 billion a year dealing with diabetes. So what I want to see, and I think a lot of people want to see, is strong laboring. (13:24–13:29)

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Asserts that the U.S. spends approximately $400 billion annually on diabetes.

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