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Bernie Sanders: “We're spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as the…”

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

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Worrying about the costs of health care. And in america Today, some 60,000Americans die each year because they can't go to afford to go to a doctor at a time when We're spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as the people of any other country, all of whom have universal health care. We talking about that very much. Are we talking about the fact that today we have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had in the history of the United States of America? (04:55–05:01)

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Asserts that the U.S. spends twice as much per capita on healthcare compared to countries with universal healthcare.

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