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Bernie Sanders: “Working class people in this country live seven or eight…”

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

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Bernie Sanders on Healthcare Expenditure Waste

Published | Video Starts at 00:10

It's not only that 60,000 people a year die because they don't get to a doctor. It's not only that our life expectancy. Is lower than. Other countries. It's not only. That Working class people in this country live seven or eight years shorter [lives than the rich]. Lives than the rich. It's not only that we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. You add all that together, guess what? We're paying twice as much per person. (00:10–00:15)

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Asserts that working-class Americans have a life expectancy 7-8 years shorter than wealthy Americans.

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