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🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm a Navy veteran I served 20 years. I saved lives. I was a Navy corpsman. We take care of our own except now. |
0:08.0 | My tri-care is not acceptable anymore. They took it away. And they claim that there was no tri-care here in Carson City. |
0:17.0 | Told me that I have to go to Dane to somebody I've never even heard of. I have Huntington's disease. I'm in stage four. |
0:25.2 | If you listened to our last two Best of Bernie episodes, you might have noticed that Bernie has been mixing it up. |
0:31.8 | He still commands the largest crowds in the race, even if the |
0:35.9 | media shows little interest in the anatomy of a Bernie rally. But in addition to |
0:41.5 | talking to thousands of people at large rallies, |
0:44.4 | Bernie is also focusing on smaller, more intimate town halls |
0:49.2 | where Americans can share their stories a financial struggle, health care worries, |
0:54.7 | inadequate housing, and a million other stresses that in a more just system |
0:59.9 | would never rise to the level of a crisis. |
1:04.0 | These town halls have produced some of the most compelling moments |
1:07.4 | from the campaign, including this story from John Wiebel, |
1:11.7 | a 20-year Navy veteran who attended a town hall in Carson City, Nevada earlier this month. |
1:18.0 | After losing access to his medical benefits and facing bills of well over $100,000. |
1:24.0 | John said that he doesn't see a way out. |
1:28.0 | I can barely take care of myself |
1:31.0 | and I do not have the energy to fight these people and every time I get on the phone with them |
1:36.5 | They piss me off and I can't deal with them and I was supposed to be given |
1:42.1 | health care free health care for life for being a veteran |
1:45.8 | for 20 years. |
1:47.2 | And this is what they've done. |
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