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Dokoupil: “Leader Thune over the Senate has said the health care issues will come to a vote if you open the government first. He can’t guarantee the outcome but he’ll get the vote. Why is that no good?” Sanders: “Well, I’ll tell you why it is no good. The current health care system is broken. It’s dysfunctional. We spend twice as much per person as the people of other country, 85 million uninsured, we don’t have enough doctors, nurses, dentists, et cetera. It is a broken system. What Trump did in his big beautiful bill is to throw 15 million low income and working class people off the health care they currently have by massive cuts in Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. You know what studies show, guys? Let’s talk about this. Studies show that, when you throw 15 million low income and working class people off health care, 50,000 people a year — a year — will die unnecessarily. They don’t have the money to go to a doctor, they have a chronic illness, they will die. On top of that, all over the country, in my state of Vermont, all over the country, people right now are receiving notices from their insurance companies, their premiums are going to go up by 20 percent — by — by double.” Dokoupil: “So open the government and vote on it. Make the case.”
