Sanders: If Republicans Want to Cut Healthcare Costs, Don‘t Throw People Off Medicaid, Have the Guts to Take on Insurance Companies

RUSH EXCERPT:
SANDERS: "Donna. Donna, let‘s talk about health care for a moment. As I hope most people know, not only are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people, we are spending over twice as much per capita on health care as the people of any other country. The function of the American health care system is to make huge profits for the insurance companies and the drug companies, and if the Republicans are serious about cutting health care costs, you don‘t throw people off of Medicaid or Medicare. You have the guts to take on the insurance companies who are ripping off the American people every single day. We‘re spending $14,500 per person on health care. Outrageous, unsustainable. By far the highest prices in the world. But the Republicans would rather throw people off of Medicare, children off of Medicaid, rather than take on the insurance companies or the power of the drug companies."