Bernie Sanders: “15 million low income and working class Americans are going…”

“Let me cut to the chase and tell you exactly what this shutdown is all about. As a result of Trump's big, beautiful, disgraceful bill, which made massive cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, 15 million, 15 million low income and working class Americans are going to lose the health care they desperately need. to stay alive. My friends. Studies suggest that 15 million people off of the health care they presently have, 50,000 of them die unnecessarily every single year.” (00:51–01:02)

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