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Bernie Sanders: I start my approach to healthcare from a very basic premise--and it's something that I have believed throughout my…

On the recordMay 14, 2012
I start my approach to healthcare from a very basic premise--and it's something that I have believed throughout my entire life--that health care is a right, not a privilege, and that poverty--the inability to pay for medicine or healthcare in general--should not be a death sentence, neither in the United States of America or anyplace else.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Healthcare is a fundamental right, not a privilege, and poverty shouldn't prevent access to it.

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