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Bernie Sanders: “Do we have a health care system? I was not aware that we had a health care system in America.”

On the recordApril 9, 2013
Do we have a health care system? I was not aware that we had a health care system in America.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Sanders questions the existence of a coherent health care system in the U.S.

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