Hillary Clinton is no longer just calling Bernie Sanders' left-wing policy proposals impractical; she's now calling them dangerous.

In a Sunday night debate with her chief rival for the Democratic nomination for president, the former secretary of state suggested that the Vermont senator's calls for a single-payer system could undermine the expansions of health care that Democrats have achieved through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

"But to tear it up and start over again, pushing our country back into that kind of a contentious debate, I think is the wrong direction," she said during an exchange with Sanders.

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