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Bernie Sanders: “Medicaid pays a lot of [nursing home costs].”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Published | Video Starts at 09:28

And if they have to throw millions of kids off of the health insurance they have through Medicaid, if they have to make it impossible for seniors to get into a nursing home, because Medicaid pays a lot of [nursing home costs]. that. If they have to destroy or devastate our primary health care system by cutting funding for community health centers, and Medicaid provides a lot of that funding, that is what they will do. (09:28–09:30)

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Asserts that Medicaid covers significant nursing home costs.

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