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Peter Welch: “The immediate struggle is to see that the current health…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Published | Video Starts at 24:19

So we are aware of that. I think I speak to everybody here who believes that health care is a human right. And that's where we got to go. But right now, The immediate struggle is to see that the current health care system, as bad as it is, does not collapse completely. If I was to summarize what the conversation has been about. Nine months of the Trump administration making Americans sicker, that's been his agenda. Families lose and billionaires win, as Chris pointed out. (24:19–24:26)

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Asserts the importance of preventing the collapse of the current health care system.

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