Veront Sen. Bernie Sanders responds to Rand Paul's claim that you can only get lower health care costs when you allow individuals to voluntarily join health insurance cost sharing organizations. Paul says that in general, the larger the group, the lower the cost per individual, but he points out that this doesn't work when the whole society is treated as one group, because that eliminates the competition that keeps costs down. Sanders responds:





BERNIE SANDERS: I also heard, Erin, if my earpiece is correct, I heard [Sen. Paul] talk about Gulags. Well, I live 50 miles away from Canada, where they manage to guarantee health care to all people at a much lower cost per capita, they have national health care throughout every major country in Europe -- I'm not quite sure that they are gulags.