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Bernie Sanders: “15 million people are being currently thrown off of health…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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$50k for Health Care? Insane.

Published | Video Starts at 00:31

In Vermont, literally today, people are receiving information that there will be a doubling or in some cases a quadrupling 4 times increase in the health insurance premiums. And this is on top of the fact that 15 million people are being currently thrown off of health care if Trump's proposals go through. So that is what this shutdown is about, is whether we allow working class, middle class people to be paying, in some cases in Vermont around the country, over $50,000 for a family of four for health insurance. (00:31–00:39)

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Asserts that 15 million people will lose health care coverage if Trump's proposals are implemented.

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