Now, in a nation in which 40 million people have no health insurance, a nation where we spend almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other Nation, a nation where 45,000 people die because they do not get health care, now, how are you going to help us get the physicians that we need in the midst of a physician shortage, the nurses that we need in terms of nurse shortage, so that when people attempt to get into the VA, they do so in a timely manner, number 1, and they get high quality health care?
Bernie Sanders: “Now, in a nation in which 40 million people have no health insurance, a nation where we spend almost twice as much per…”
On the recordJuly 21, 2014
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Sanders highlights the healthcare crisis and its impact on veterans.
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