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Bernie Sanders: “We're the only major country not to guarantee health care to…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 46:02

And it saddens me very much that we have a system which everybody recognizes is broken, it is dysfunctional, it is enormously complicated. And by the way, not only We're the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people, but we're spending twice as much per capita as other countries. So I think the answer to your question is health care is a human right. We guarantee health care to all people, young, old, rich or poor. (46:02–46:12)

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Asserts that the U.S. spends twice as much per capita on health care compared to other countries.

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