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Graham Platner: “We need to make all of that go away and we can with a…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Graham Platner Speaks to PACKED Augusta Crowd

Published | Video Starts at 27:14

It's about paying in year after year to a health insurance company that when the day comes that you need a procedure, they run an AI program that tells you you don't qualify. That is not how we should be functioning as a society. We need to make all of that go away and we can with a universal health care system. We need a tax code that's going to tax wages at a lower rate than we tax wealth because right now we do the opposite. (27:14–27:21)

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Asserts the need for a universal health care system to address current health care issues.

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