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Jasmine Crockett: “We don't have adequate access to health care, especially…”

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

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Jasmine Crockett Discusses Her Journey, Political Challenges, and Advocacy for Justice Reform

Published | Video Starts at 27:56

For some people, it's literally self medication. When we look at so many of our unhoused people and when we look at our veterans and we look at the fact that We don't have adequate access to health care, especially when we start to talk about mental health care. I'm just like, there's a lot that we could do. We could maybe invest in mental health and maybe take a little bit out of incarceration, and maybe we will get a bigger and better result. (27:56–28:04)

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Asserts that there is inadequate access to health care, particularly mental health care.

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