Bernie Sanders in 2020: ‘Our Current System Is Simply to Make Huge Profits for the Drug Companies and the Insurance Companies ... While People Die’

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SANDERS: “The function of a rational and humane healthcare system is to guarantee healthcare to all people in a cost effective way. The function of our current system, however, is simply to make huge profits for the drug companies and the insurance companies who made $100 billion in profit last year, while people die because they don’t get to a doctor on time. Where people are paying in this country — they want to talk about vulgarity. Take a hard look at the pharmaceutical industry. If there ever was a bunch of crooks in this country, they are sitting as CEOs of the drug companies. They are charging us in some cases 10 times more for the same exact medicine you could buy in Canada or in Europe. All right? So tonight we tell the drug companies that you will, under our administration, stop ripping off the American people. We’re not going to pay the highest prices in the world.”