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Senate HELP chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) talked about taking away hospitals' tax-exempt status when he was asked during an interview about alleged hospital abuse of 340B.

Sanders, Asked About Abuse in 340B, Cites His Past Effort to End a Hospital’s Tax Exemption

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the new chair of the Senate committee that oversees the 340B program, recently answered a reporter’s question about alleged hospital abuse of 340B by noting that he tried to revoke a Burlington, Vt., hospital’s tax-exempt status when he was the city’s mayor in the 1980s.

“I did not believe they were fulfilling their responsibility to serve the poor and working families,” Sanders said in an interview with Kaiser Health News published yesterday.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the new chair of the Senate committee that oversees the 340B program, recently answered a reporter’s question about alleged hospital abuse of 340B by noting that he tried to revoke a Burlington, Vt., hospital’s tax-exempt status when he was the city’s mayor in the 1980s.

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