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John Hickenlooper: “Health care should be a right and not a privilege.”

Featuring: John Hickenlooper, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Colorado

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Denver7's Colette Bordelon interviews Sen. John Hickenlooper, vying to keep his U.S. Senate seat

Published | Video Starts at 14:06

I mean, Bernie Sanders. I teased Bernie Sanders because I actually wrote a letter to the Middletown Press in Connecticut saying that health care. After all, shouldn't Health care should be a right and not a privilege. Two years before, the first time he ever said it, when he was running for mayor of Burlington, and I teased him, saying, you know, you look at me and you say that I'm a moderate. (14:06–14:09)

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Asserts that health care should be universally accessible as a right.

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