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Graham Platner: “In rural Maine, health care is collapsing now.”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Published | Video Starts at 59:48

I think we need to start thinking about mental health care as being as much a part of health care as everything else and incorporating that into a larger system. I mean, we. In rural Maine, health care is collapsing now. Not next year, not down the road. It's already happened. I know. I was going to say, like, one of the big problems or one of the big challenges with Medicare for all is that hospitals get a. (59:48–59:53)

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Asserts that the healthcare system in rural Maine is currently collapsing.

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