Hi everyone, this is Virgil Texas. As part of Chapo Trap House's continuing interview series with the 2020 presidential candidates, I recently sat down with Senator Bernie Sanders. Please enjoy.

Two weeks ago at a town hall in Nevada, you spoke with a veteran who is suffering from Huntington's disease, who has health insurance trichare, but it was not except no longer being accepted.

And who is over $100,000 in medical debt?

139.

And who told you his despair was so great, he would kill himself.

Yes.

What was going through your head when you were talking to that person?

Outrage.

Outrage that in this particular case, a man would put his life on the line to defend our country, was thinking of killing himself.

Because as it turns us, he's being hounded by Bill Collective. That's the state doesn't answer his phone.

And since then, we've been talking to people all across this country, whose credit rating has been shot.

We have 500,000 people who go bankrupt.

Can you imagine the insanity of a system?

We are diagnosed with cancer, and because you're diagnosed with cancer or another serious illness, you go bankrupt.

Does anybody think that that is not insane?

And we have the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people, I intend to change that.

I've seen videos of other people who go up to you with town halls, and they give the most depressing stories.

The stories that we're all familiar with at this point, that medical debt or other kinds of debt have driven them to despair, bankruptcy, or even to prison.

And there's something almost futile about that, that this system is so impossible for your average person to exist in, that, well, screw it, I guess I've got to ask Bernie Sanders what the hell to do.

You've talked about being an organizer and chief.

How do you empower, how do we make that change?

Let me answer that in two ways. That's a great question, I want to answer it.

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