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Michael Bennet: “We have a health care system in this country that costs our…”

Featuring: Michael Bennet, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Colorado

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Colorado Democratic Senator Michael Bennet answers questions about the government shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 02:13

I would say to put it bluntly, fighting for Americans health care is not a waste of time. It's never a waste of time and I'll continue to do it as long as I'm in public office. We have a health care system in this country that costs our country, our government and our families twice as much as the health care in any other industrialized country. And we get much less for it. He went on to say how he's now recommitted to fight for universal health care in the US And Senator Bennett says for those colorad fraud ins facing the loss of health care coverage or skyrocketing rates. (02:13–02:26)

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Asserts that the U.S. health care system costs twice as much as in other industrialized countries.

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