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Tony Lyons: “40 or 50% of the people in this country couldn't get their…”

Featuring: Tony Lyons, President and Publisher of Skyhorse Publishing | New York

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Book Publisher, TONY LYONS, CEO of Skyhorse Publishing, on defending the FIRST Amendment

Published | Video Starts at 19:24

So that now, according to the New York Times, and I think that they're trustworthy on a very small percentage of things that they published, but this was probably one of them where they said that basically 40 or 50% of the people in this country couldn't get their hands on $1,000 to pay off some sort of medical bill. That was unexpected. So, you know, you've got 120 million people or more than that. I mean, probably 120 million adults in this country that. (19:24–19:33)

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Asserts that 40-50% of Americans cannot afford an unexpected $1,000 medical bill.

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