Sen. Bernie Sanders
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Take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and the insurance companies.
OK, we're spending more than enough money to guarantee good quality health care to every person.
All right.
What else do you got to do?
We need the Democratic Party to be very clear.
The campaign system, current campaign finance system is broken.
You got to get rid of Citizens United.
You got to move to public funding of elections.
Give everybody a chance to participate in our democracy.
I happen, you know, I've always been deeply concerned about health care as a human right.
And this is something that is so doable.
We are the odd guy out as a country.
I live 50 miles away from Canada.
You spend a month in a hospital encounter.
You know what the bill is when you come out?
Zero.
They spend half as much per capita as we do on health care.
They guarantee health care to all of their people.
This can be done.
Absolutely doable.