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Bernie Sanders: “Two out of three people who are in a nursing home get their…”

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

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Vermont Congressional Delegation Telephone Town Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 49:28

And that's certainly true. But there are 160,000 Vermonters who are enrolled in Medicaid and it's not just children and it's not even lower income people. Two out of three people who are in a nursing home get their support from Medicaid. If you are utilizing a community health center in the state of Vermont, and one third of our people do that, and 32 million people do it nationally, a significant part of their revenue comes from Medicaid. (49:28–49:35)

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Asserts that two-thirds of nursing home residents receive support from Medicaid.

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