Sanders: GOP healthcare bill is a ‘moral outrage’

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday slammed the Republican’s proposal to repeal and replace ObamaCare, calling it a “moral outrage that this country will never live down.”

“A great nation is judged … by how well it treats the most vulnerable people in this country,” Sanders said in a speech during his “Don’t Steal Our Health Care” bus tour stop in Pittsburgh Saturday.

“We will not allow 23 million Americans to be thrown off of the health insurance they currently have in order to give more than $500 billion in tax breaks to the top two percent, to the insurance companies, to the drug companies and to other multi-national companies,” Sanders said to cheers. “Plain and simple, this so-called healthcare bill is a massive transfer of wealth from working families to the very very rich.

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“This is a barbaric and immoral piece of legislation,” he added.

Sanders is headlining three rallies in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia over the weekend as he joins Democratic efforts to stop the push to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

MoveOn.org is hosting the tour and said it will target three GOP senators — Pat Toomey (Pa.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.) — to lobby for efforts against the Senate bill.