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Bernie Sanders: “20 million people seeing a doubling in the health insurance…”

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

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Bernie on Trump's Unspeakable Cuts to Nutrition Assistance

Published | Video Starts at 00:20

… of people are just hanging in, you know, trying to feed their families or pay their rent or pay for health care. What we're looking at right now is some 20 million people seeing a doubling in the health insurance premiums. In my state of Vermont, we're hearing that people are looking at a tripling or a quadrupling of the health insurance premiums. Shortly we're going to be saying if we don't prevent it, which we must. (00:20–00:28)

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