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Graham Platner: “It would be one of the largest projects we've really ever…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 1:02:42

Yeah. Costs will go up. So I, I think it's, I do not pretend that it will not be a transition period. I mean, we're going to, It would be one of the largest projects we've really ever undertaken as a nation to transition from the health care system we have to a single payer universal health care system. But we also have to do it because what we're doing now is insanely expensive. And it's terrible. It's. And it's in many places in rural America. It's totally unsustainable. (1:02:42–1:02:53)

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Asserts that transitioning to a single-payer universal healthcare system would be one of the largest national projects.

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