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Jasmine Crockett: “Pulling that money out, it made everybody else's premiums go…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Published | Video Starts at 27:03

So because of the big ugly bill, we know $1 trillion was pulled out of Medicaid and Medicare. Pulling that money out, it made everybody else's premiums go up. Because the way that insurance works is that everybody got to pay in, right? And then it's a matter of hopefully you don't have to pull down. (27:03–27:06)

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Asserts that removing funds from Medicaid and Medicare increased insurance premiums.

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