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Mark Pocan: “We're the only industrialized nation that doesn't have…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Published | Video Starts at 02:58

This just does not seem like the way we should ever run things. Yeah, there really should be strong coverage and the ability to avoid financial collapse when you get sick and the fact. That We're the only industrialized nation that doesn't have universal health care. certainly probably lends to that very problem. Yeah. And our costs that we undertake in terms of paperwork, bureaucracy and red tape through, through our insurance company system is inefficient and it takes money away from actual care of people. (02:58–03:02)

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Asserts that the U.S. is the only industrialized nation without universal health care.

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