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Bernie Sanders: “It would throw 15 million Americans off the health care they…”

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

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

Published | Video Starts at 02:34

And let me be clear, what it would mean if Republicans got their way and this so called CR continuing resolution were to pass. First, It would throw 15 million Americans off the health care they have because of massive cuts to Medicaid and the aca. And what studies from Yale and the University of Pennsylvania and Esquire 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. (02:34–02:45)

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Asserts that 15 million Americans would lose health care due to cuts to Medicaid and the ACA.

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