At a rally in Michigan, Bernie Sanders says "he" threw 15 million people off their health care and took away Affordable Care Act subsidies, which Sanders says will double or triple premiums in Vermont. Sanders says the reason was $1 trillion in tax breaks for the top 1%, adding that those are not the priorities the American people want or need.
The receipt
- Who
- Bernie Sanders
- Where
- rally - Abdul El-Sayed for Senate rally, Alpena, Michigan
- Original footage
- MeidasTouch · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 59 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
What he did is throw 15 million people off the health care they have, took away subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, so that in Vermont, and I'm sure it's similar here, people are going to see a doubling or tripling of their premiums. Why did he do that? What was the imperative that drove him to do that? Why he did it was to give $1 trillion in tax breaks to the top 1%. So at a time when our healthcare system is collapsing through 15 million people of healthcare, at a time when the rich are getting much richer, gave them a trillion dollars in tax breaks. those are not the priorities that the American people want or need.
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