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Peter Welch: “This country pays the most [for health care] and gets the…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Senate Democrats Introduce Three-Year Extension of Health Care Subsidies

Published | Video Starts at 08:45

I'm going to turn it over to my friend from Vermont, Peter Welch. Thank you very much. You know, we have a health care crisis in this country. This country pays the most [for health care] and gets the least. Literally. We pay about two times more than, like, European countries or Canada. And our health care outcomes are not as good. Which is not to say we don't have great care, but it is getting unaffordable. (08:45–08:47)

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Asserts that the U.S. pays the most for health care but gets the least in return.

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