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Bernie Sanders: “Well, it's a bad idea, Anderson, because it's going to throw 13 million Americans off their health insurance they…”

On the recordNovember 14, 2017
Well, it's a bad idea, Anderson, because it's going to throw 13 million Americans off their health insurance they currently have, including about six million people on Medicaid. It's going to raise premiums by about 10 percent for ordinary Americans. It's going to be devastatingly harmful to rural hospitals all over American.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Senator Sanders discusses the negative impacts of repealing the individual mandate in the tax bill.

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