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John Hickenlooper: “We knew we were going to lose at least a million. It looks…”

Featuring: John Hickenlooper, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Colorado

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U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper and Wanda James, candidate for Congress | Colorado Point of View

Published | Video Starts at 10:42

And then we have to rebuild all this stuff that he's torn apart. Right. We've got to build, rebuild our health care plan. When he took away that, the health care subsidies, We knew we were going to lose at least a million. It looks like now we'll lose 4 million this year of people that will lose coverage. When you look at the cuts to Medicaid and how that's going to affect Colorado and our overall coverage, you know, we worked hard when I was governor to get an additional 500,000 people covered. (10:42–10:48)

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