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Why Bernie Sanders Wants to Know Your Health Insurance Deductible

Saying he feels like “a Vermont auctioneer,” the Democratic presidential candidate gets audiences to make his case.
Photographer: Scott Eisen/Getty Images
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A week after Hillary Clinton accused Bernie Sanders of jeopardizing the Democrats’ hard-fought Obamacare victory by reopening the debate over health insurance, her chief competitor for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination is rolling out a new strategy for selling his "Medicare for All" plan.

Asking audience members at his rallies to shout out their own deductibles—the amount they have to pay out-of-pocket each year before their medical insurance kicks in.