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Hakeem Jeffries: “Hospitals, nursing homes, community based health centers are…”

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

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Leader Jeffries on CNN's The Situation Room

Published | Video Starts at 08:36

They enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history. More than 14 million people are about to lose their health insurance as a result of what Republicans did in their one big ugly bill. Hospitals, nursing homes, community based health centers are closing throughout the country. They're attacking the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institute of Health, making vaccines unavailable. Children are going sick and now they refuse to deal with the Affordable Care act tax credit extensions. (08:36–08:41)

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Asserts that hospitals, nursing homes, and community-based health centers are closing nationwide.

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