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Bernie Sanders: “It would restore health care to the 15 million Americans who…”

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

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FULL SPEECH: Bernie Sanders rallies with Graham Platner and Troy Jackson in Orono, Maine

Published | Video Starts at 34:34

It would end the crisis we now experience in home health, health care, so that seniors and people with disabilities could live with dignity in their own homes. And It would restore health care to the 15 million Americans who are losing it because of Trump's big, beautiful bill. We can do all of that and more by a 5% annual tax on the wealth of billionaires. Now, my opponents, of which there are many, claim that this legislation is punitive and confiscate. (34:34–34:38)

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