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Article snippet: Sen. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reported. “It turns out that the legislation that is coming before the Senate in a few days, the so-called health care bill, will be the most devastating attack on the working class of this country in the modern history of the United States of America,” Sanders said to a crowd of about 2,000, according to the Gazette-Mail. “This legislation will cause devastating, unprecedented harm to millions of people in my state, in your state and all across the country.” “We will not allow 23 million Americans to be thrown off of the health insurance they currently have in order to give $500 billion in tax breaks to the top 2 percent, the insurance companies and drug companies,” Sanders said at the event hosted by Move On Civic Action and several other progressive organizations. “You don’t have a health care bill by throwing off millions of people off health insurance,” he said, the Gazette-Mail reported. So far, five GOP senators have said they won’t support the current form of the bill. Sanders used his appearance to urge Capito to join their ranks. “Right now, nobody knows whether this bill will pass or fail. It will come down to a handful of votes. I believe that if Sen. Capito votes no, this bill will in fact go down,” Sanders said. “If she votes no, the Republicans likely will not have the votes to pass this disastrous legislation.” “Sen. Capito is continuing to review and working to improve the health care legislation released last we... Link to the full article to read more