Sen. Bernie Sanders
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It is a system designed to make huge profits for the insurance companies and the drug companies.
Right.
Period.
We have got to move to a Medicare for all single payer program.
Absolutely.
The irony is in the caucus, I am outside of the caucus in the real world.
I am not.
Right.
That's the point.
Yeah.
All right.
I think there is, oh, Bernie, it's too radical.
Oh, Bernie, you know, money from insurance companies, drug companies, you know, all that stuff.
We've got all kinds of opposition.
Well, these are nonverbal communications.
A little nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Yeah.
Look, these guys, last count, there were 1,500 lobbyists from the pharmaceutical industry in Washington, DC.
And that's why you are paying, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
But then you got other things.