And now we have to figure out not only how we feed our families, but how we pay for our health insurance because we purchase under the marketplace. Why is it so important that people are insured? I was in the Virginia legislature when we expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. And the reason we did it was because we had rural hospitals that were about to close. We had so many people who were not getting preventative care and it was leading an already bad maternal health crisis to get worse. (04:34–04:40)
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Asserts her involvement in expanding Medicaid in Virginia under the Affordable Care Act.
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