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Bernie Sanders: “50,000 of them will die unnecessarily every year [if 15…”

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

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And what studies from Yale and University of Pennsylvania and Esqua indicate that when you throw 15 million working class and low income people off the health care they have, 50,000 of them will die unnecessarily every year [if 15 million are thrown off healthcare]. So what this legislation is about is whether we vote to allow 50,000 of our fellow Americans to die unnecessarily every year because they were thrown off of Medicaid and the aca. (00:46–01:05)

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Asserts that 50,000 people will die annually if 15 million lose healthcare coverage.

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