Bob Casey Jr.: “Health care jobs and government jobs have been real…”

“I mean, we've got about 63, little more than 60 rural hospitals in Pennsylvania. That's a hell of a big segment of them that would be at risk … Health care jobs and government jobs have been real stabilizers in a lot of communities [in Pennsylvania] for the last 20 years or more. … say, where there is a rural hospital, that it's a job loss in addition to a health care loss.” (22:54–23:02)

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