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Hasan Piker: “Medicaid cuts are strip mining hospitals, while roughly a…”

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CAN DETROIT ELECT A PROGRESSIVE? | Donavan McKinney

Published | Video Starts at 57:43

You came out of SEIU Healthcare Michigan organizing nursing home and home care workers. Yeah. You talk about your mother's brain tumors and emergency surgeries covered only because of the ACA's pre existing condition protections. Now Medicaid cuts are strip mining hospitals, while roughly a quarter of Michiganders rely on Medicaid. And you got seniors coming to your district office deciding between rent food. Yeah. And the medicine that keeps them alive. Only in America, by the way. That's true. (57:43–57:49)

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Asserts that Medicaid cuts are negatively impacting hospitals in Michigan, where about 25% of residents rely on Medicaid.

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