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John Hickenlooper: “We worked hard when I was governor to get an additional…”

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 10:53

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. That's going to get all washed away by these crazy cuts, you know, gigantic cuts to health care, to Medicaid and Medicare and coverage just to give tax breaks to, … (10:53–10:58)

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Asserts that 500,000 additional people were covered under his governorship.

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