Video Link: VT state leaders unite to blast GOP health care bill - July 17

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Sanders called the health care bill "the most dangerous and destructive piece of legislation ever brought before the United States Senate in the modern history of this country." Vermont House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, a Democrat from South Hero, called it "morally bankrupt" and "idiotic."

The event was painstakingly bipartisan as participants avoided discussing areas of controversy or disagreement.

When Sanders mentioned that he wants to create a single-payer health care system for all Americans, reporter Paul Heintz of Seven Days asked Scott whether he supported the same measures. Scott declined to answer directly and said he only wanted people "get together" to discuss the issues. Welch volunteered to deflect the question.

"Let me answer this," Welch said, arguing that the discussion about Sanders' ideas would take place at the federal level.

"I didn't mean to put the governor on the spot," Sanders said later, drawing laughter.

When the same reporter asked Sanders about the financial questions surrounding his wife's leadership at Burlington College, Sanders groaned, and Scott stepped up to the microphone.

"Maybe we could save that for another time," Scott said. "How about Medicaid?"

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/17/vt-state-leaders-unite-blast-gop-health-care-bill/484423001/

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