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Bernie Sanders: “A significant percentage of people who get diagnosed with…”

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

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We Will Win Medicare for All | Sen. Bernie Sanders

Published | Video Starts at 00:33

We're taking on the insurance industry and the hospitals and everybody else who want to profit off of health care. The insanity right now that A significant percentage of people who get diagnosed with cancer go bankrupt. They lose their life savings. How insane, how cruel is that? We lose tens of thousands of people every year because they're uninsured or underinsured, and they don't get into a doctor's office when they should. (00:33–00:39)

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Asserts that many cancer patients face financial ruin due to medical costs.

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