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Bernie Sanders: “Health insurance premiums for the 20 million plus people on…”

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

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Bernie Sanders & Senate Democratic Leaders Speak to Reporters on SNAP Benefit Cuts

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… Americans to die unnecessarily every year because they were thrown off of Medicaid and the aca. Further, if the Republicans were to prevail, what it means is that on average, Health insurance premiums for the 20 million plus people on the Affordable Care act on average would double. In my state of Vermont, we have now received information there are some people who would pay a tripling or a quadrupling of their health care premiums. (03:27–03:35)

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Asserts that health insurance premiums would double for over 20 million people on the ACA.

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