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Dick Durbin: “The administration decided that documenting that you have a…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Delivers Floor Speech Denouncing The Trump Administration's Attacks On Americans' Health Care

Published | Video Starts at 01:33

Last week, the Trump administration took a look at this and decided to make a bad situation even worse. They announced the rules to implement these work requirements. The administration decided that documenting that you have a serious condition like cancer or Alzheimer's, is not enough to avoid work requirements. Instead, they're further requiring patients to to verify that these conditions actually impede your ability to work. (01:33–01:44)

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Asserts that the administration requires more than just documentation of serious conditions to avoid Medicaid work requirements.

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