Gavin Newsom: “We expanded health care coverage, drove the uninsured rate…”

“That's a 60% increase. And this year we passed the largest special education investment in state's history, $2.4 billion more in a single year. We expanded health care coverage, drove the uninsured rate, get this down to 5.9%. That's one of the lowest in the United States. And I want to pause on that for a second. Texas, just another big state, has as an example, point of contrast, 16.7% of its population without health insurance, 5.9% California, 16.7 in Texas.” (05:03–05:13)

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