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Bernie Sanders: “15 million people [are] thrown off of health care, Medicaid…”

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

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FULL SPEECH: Bernie Sanders Holds 'Billionaire Tax Now' Event In Los Angeles, California

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And on and on it goes. The richest people are doing phenomenally well. And in many cases, they are paying very little in taxes. And once again, 15 million people [are] thrown off of health care, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act in order to provide a trillion dollars in tax breaks for these very same billionaires. So all that the folks in California are saying is at a time when the very rich are becoming phenomenally richer, when the very rich have been given a massive … (25:04–25:19)

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Asserts that 15 million people lost healthcare to fund tax breaks for billionaires.

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