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Hakeem Jeffries: “Hospitals and nursing homes and community based health…”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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Leader Jeffries on CNN News Central

Published | Video Starts at 03:03

This is the same group of folks who earlier this year enacted their one big ugly bill where they cut Medicaid by the largest amount in American history and in the process took healthcare away from 14 million Americans. And Hospitals and nursing homes and community based health clinics are closing all across the country. So, as we've always said, we'll sit down, talk to our Republican colleagues anytime, any place, particularly those who have now expressed an interest in, in dealing with this health … (03:03–03:08)

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