Bernie Sanders: “We have an inverted pyramid. We spend huge amounts of money on…”

On the recordJanuary 21, 2009

We have an inverted pyramid. We spend huge amounts of money on specialty care and yet we underfund, grotesquely in my view, primary health care.

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Independent · Vermont

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Sanders calls for a shift in funding from specialty to primary health care.

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