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Senate health committee Chair Bernie Sanders
Sen. Berne Sanders (I-Vt.) Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a new corporate target: the food industry.

Sanders held a hearing today on diabetes that implicated both the food and drug industries in what the American Diabetes Association estimates is a $413 billion annual cost to the health care system. That’s up 27% over the past six years, he said, and he warned that new weight loss drugs could send health care spending to the stratosphere.

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But the food industry received more attention, especially from Sanders, than the drugmakers and drug middlemen.

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