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Bernie Sanders: “Some 50, 60,000 people die a year in America unnecessarily…”

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

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Sen. Bernie Sanders | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #635

Published | Video Starts at 09:57

So if you don't have any money, what the hell, how do you go to the doctor? Yeah, yeah. So you add all that together, people get sick, they can't go to the doctor. Some 50, 60,000 people die a year in America unnecessarily because they don't get to a doctor on time. That is pretty insane. So in my view, I push very hard to introduce the legislation of what we call Medicare for all, expanding Medicare to cover every man, woman and child without out of pocket expenses. (09:57–10:04)

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Asserts that 50,000 to 60,000 Americans die annually due to lack of timely medical care.

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