Washington 24 Jan (ANA) - Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders has issued a warning against President Donald Trump's move to axe his predecessor's healthcare initiative saying “as Republicans try to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they should be reminded every day that 36,000 people will die yearly as a result.” In 2015, more than 2.6 million people died in the United States, or nearly 7,200 per day. Sanders suggets  repeal of the law would increase the number of deaths by 1.4 percent. Sanders obtained the figure of 36,000 from a calculation by ThinkProgress, a left-leaning website, according to his aides. Essentially, ThinkProgress assumed that repeal will result in 29.8 million people losing their insurance and that one person will die for every 830 people who lose their insurance. That yields a number of 35,903.(ANA)

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