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Bernie Sanders: “Studies from Yale University and the University of…”

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

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Where We Are With The Government Shutdown | Sen. Bernie Sanders

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We pay the highest costs. Trump's big, beautiful bill will make that situation in health care even worse. As a result of that legislation, 15 million Americans will be thrown … Studies from Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania suggest...some 50,000 Americans will die unnecessarily every single year. … it is true. And it's understandable. If you're throwing 15 million low income and working class people, many of them with serious health problems, off their health care, they can't get to a doctor when they need to. (01:32–01:53)

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Asserts that studies predict 50,000 unnecessary deaths annually due to loss of health care.

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