Sanders: If GOP Health Care Bill Is Passed, 32 Million Will Be Thrown off Insurance and Tens of Thousands Will Die

‘But you don’t throw tens of millions of people off of health insurance in order to get $500 million in tax breaks to the richest companies’

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SANDERS: ">> Well, the answer is that I have a lot of respect for senator sasse, but that idea is an absord idea. As you pointed out, this congressional budget office indicated if you simply repeal the affordable care act, ObamaCare, you will throw 32 million Americans off of health insurance, 10% of the population of the United States. If you throw, Jake, 32 million people off of health insurance, what doctors who have studied this issue say that tenoffs thousands of people every single year will die. What we’ve got to do and what a vast majority of marns wants us to do is to say what are the problems, how with we work together to solve them? The affordable care act, under the affordable care act the deductibles are too high. Co-payments are too high. We paid the highest prices for prescription drugs of any country. One out of five Americans can’t even afford the medicines they need. We’re very week in terms of primary health care. Many of Americans with health insurance can’t find a doctor or dentist when they need them. Let’s put those issues on the table and figure out how we deal with them in a bipartisan matter. And secondly the problem not recognized or talked about in Congress at all, I live 50 miles away from the Canadian border. Somehow they manage to provide health care for all of their people at a significantly lower capita than we do. Of course it can be done in a bipartisan way. But you don’t throw tens of millions of people off of health insurance in order to get $500 million in tax breaks to the richest companies.

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