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Kirsten Gillibrand: “I believe that health care should be a right and not a…”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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FACE THE NATION Interview with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on 2020 Presidential Campaign and Key Issues

Published | Video Starts at 06:51

You had been a co sponsor on a bill with Bernie Sanders previously that would essentially nationalize health care. That would require an estimated $1.4 trillion a year. How do you finance that? So I believe that health care should be a right and not a privilege. Because as I've traveled across this country in the last few election cycles campaigning for candidates to flip the House of Representatives and take back Senate seats, I listen to people. (06:51–06:55)

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