I am angry because I believe it isn't just parents who are Wall street bankers who should be able to pay for cancer treatment, treatments for their kids. Our nation is better than that. My Republican colleagues should feel ashamed. Experts have run the numbers. 51,000 more people every year will die unnecessarily if this Republican bill becomes law. And the Republican reaction, Senator Joni Ernst, proclaimed, well, we're all going to die. And as recently AS Today, Mitch McConnell is telling Republicans behind closed doors that their party … (11:10–11:24)
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Asserts that 51,000 additional deaths annually will occur if the Republican bill becomes law.
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