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Dick Durbin: “They [congressional Republicans] allowed ACA's enhanced…”

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

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Durbin Slams Trump Administration For Spiking Health Care Costs For Farmers In The Midwest

Published | Video Starts at 01:56

Yet instead of lowering these costs, President Trump and congressional Republicans have spent the past year making the problem much worse, They [congressional Republicans] allowed ACA's enhanced premium tax credits to expire despite repeated warnings about what it meant for families. And they slashed $1 trillion from the program called Medicaid. That's a program which is critically important. Think about this for a moment. Every other birth in my state of Illinois is paid for by Medicaid. (01:56–03:35)

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Asserts that congressional Republicans allowed ACA's enhanced premium tax credits to expire.

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