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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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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

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

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