Republicans have also set in motion a $536 billion cut to Medicare that will occur at the end of the year if Congress doesn't act because of toxic provisions in their one big ugly bill. Medical research has effectively been halted in the United States of America. And Republicans are proposing dramatic cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Health. We're witnessing an all out Republican assault on the health care of the American people. (08:47–08:54)
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Asserts that medical research has been halted in the U.S.
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