Cory Booker: “We are spending trillions of dollars every year treating…”

“And that's just diabetes. Cancer rates up, dementia rates up, hypertension up, heart disease up, kidney failure, fatty liver disease in children, all of it skyrocketing. Put it all together and We are spending trillions of dollars every year treating diseases that would not exist at this scale if big corporations had not built a food system designed to make us sick. And at every step of this crisis, someone is getting rich off of it. The food companies that make us sick, the insurance companies that ration our care, and the prescription drug companies charging Americans the highest prices in the world for medications.” (04:18–04:34)

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