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Graham Platner: “We're the only country on earth where [medical bankruptcy]…”

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

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Bernie Sanders Joins Graham Platner to Take On America's Rigged System

Published | Video Starts at 09:24

I'm on my wife's. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Health insurance is horrible. You really couldn't come up with a more inefficient way. It's broken. It's broken with something like medical bankruptcy. We're the only country on earth where [medical bankruptcy] exists. Gosh, you. Not even where it. Like, it's bad, but it doesn't exist. The idea that you're going to go into bankruptcy because you got sick is anathema. (09:24–09:27)

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Asserts that the U.S. is unique in allowing medical bankruptcy.

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