Bernie Sanders: “This year, as a result of Trump's actions, health insurance…”

“By the way, the purpose of that cut is to provide a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the 1%. This year, as a result of Trump's actions, health insurance premiums have doubled, have doubled on average for 20 million Americans in the Affordable Care Act. Now that's a pretty strange way to be driving health care prices down and improving health care. Last night Trump also claimed that he is ending the wildly inflated cost of prescription drugs.” (08:09–08:21)

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