Bernie Sanders called the U.S.'s largely private health care system an “international embarrassment” after a new poll showed Americans had very little faith in the quality of their health care.
. On the other hand, however, there are “more than enough people,” Sanders said, to send bills to people and hound them over money owed.
According to Sanders, the reasons for these inefficiencies and inequities is explained by the greed of the health insurance and pharmaceutical companies; profits of Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson and AbbVie increased more than 90 percent last year to over $54 billion. “If you want to know why we are stuck with a dysfunctional health care system that fails the American people but that makes the drug companies and the insurance companies wildly profitable, follow the money,” he said, pointing out that the private health care sector has spent over $10 billion in lobbying since 1998, including over $1.7 billion on campaign contributions.most recently introduced
last May. If passed, it would establish a single-payer health care system that would guarantee health coverage for every American in every clinic or health facility. “Maybe, just maybe, now is the time for Congress to do what the American people want, not what the lobbyists want, not what the drug companies want, not what the insurance companies want. And maybe, just maybe, we should have the courage to take on powerful special interests who dominate health care in the United States,” Sanders concluded.
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