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Bernie Sanders: “60,000 people die each year because they don't get to a…”

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

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Fighting Oligarchy with Bernie, AOC, and Greg Casar.

Published | Video Starts at 1:18:12

Right now in America, you have hundreds, you have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people working for starvation wages. In America today, if you can believe it, 60,000 people die each year because they don't get to a doctor when they should. So we got massive income and wealth inequality. We have more concentration of ownership in the economy. Handful of giant corporations owning sector after sector. (1:18:12–1:18:20)

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Asserts that 60,000 Americans die annually due to lack of timely medical care.

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