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On the recordMay 11, 2022
So we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on folks who bill us and drive us crazy but do not provide any health care to us.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Sanders highlights inefficiencies in healthcare spending on billing rather than care.

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