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Veteran who contemplated suicide reunites with Bernie Sanders
[link:https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/veteran-contemplated-suicide-reunites-bernie-sanders/story?id=67610294&fbclid=IwAR1s0UTyu70vG6uF_BLSqZJLjiA1UEZM5EO4N3zAQATMwp2ApdL9AFCIS7c|
The Naval Air Force veteran said he was buried in medical debt.
By
Averi Harper
December 9, 2019, 9:11 PM
4 min read
Sen. Bernie Sanders reunited Monday with a veteran who garnered headlines after telling the presidential candidate he was contemplating suicide due to being saddled with $139,000 in medical debt.
The Naval Air Force veteran, named John Weigel, told the Vermont senator and a crowd of attendees at a campaign-sponsored town hall in September that he didn’t know how he would pay for compounding medical debt for the treatment of Huntington’s disease.
"I can’t. I can’t. I’m gonna kill myself," Weigel told Sanders in their first encounter.
"Hold on, John, stop it, you’re not gonna kill yourself," Sanders replied.
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The Naval Air Force veteran said he was buried in medical debt.
By
Averi Harper
December 9, 2019, 9:11 PM
4 min read
Sen. Bernie Sanders reunited Monday with a veteran who garnered headlines after telling the presidential candidate he was contemplating suicide due to being saddled with $139,000 in medical debt.
The Naval Air Force veteran, named John Weigel, told the Vermont senator and a crowd of attendees at a campaign-sponsored town hall in September that he didn’t know how he would pay for compounding medical debt for the treatment of Huntington’s disease.
"I can’t. I can’t. I’m gonna kill myself," Weigel told Sanders in their first encounter.
"Hold on, John, stop it, you’re not gonna kill yourself," Sanders replied.
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