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Graham Platner: “As long as there is a substantial profit motive with a…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Like, at some point you have to figure out how to contain the cost of the healthcare system. Yeah. And, and I'll just be entirely, entirely upfront. As long as there is a substantial profit motive with a substantial middleman, we're just gonna like, unless we address that part of the problem, subsidies won't be enough. because somebody's going to figure out how to pull more money out of the thing. Yeah. Costs will go up. So I, I think it's, I do not pretend that it will not be a transition period. (1:02:18–1:02:31)

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Asserts that the profit motive and middlemen in healthcare prevent subsidies from being sufficient.

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