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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “If you started allowing young people to be covered by…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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Medicare for All: "Who's going to pay for it?" | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Published | Video Starts at 01:46

It is no shade if we are all lucky we were we will reach that age. But we are already insuring the most expensive population segment in America right now. If you started allowing young people to be covered by Medicare, they make systems solvent because they use it way less but their proceeds go to helping everybody else. (01:46–02:01)

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Asserts that including young people in Medicare would improve its solvency due to their lower usage.

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