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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “In the United States, health care is not treated as a human…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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Rep. AOC Speaks at TU Berlin on The Future of U.S. Politics

Published | Video Starts at 05:14

They were able to finally buy a home which is part of the white picket fence American dream. And around the time I was 16 years old, my father was diagnosed with cancer. Of course, In the United States, health care is not treated as a human right. It is not universal. And so we suffered greatly financially through his chemotherapy treatments. And I got into college and I started studying in school. And the first week of my sophomore year of college, my father passed away. (05:14–05:21)

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Asserts that healthcare in the United States is not considered a human right and is not universal.

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