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John Hickenlooper: “We've got a million Coloradans that are enrolled in either…”

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

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Virtual Town Hall with Senator Hickenlooper and Janine Davidson on National Issues

Published | Video Starts at 22:43

Everything we do to come close to achieving that $880 billion in deficit without cutting Medicaid. So when they say, oh, we're going to have this budget but we won't cut Medicaid, that's a mathematical impossibility. We've got a million Coloradans that are enrolled in either Medicaid or CHIP. That's almost one in six Coloradans. 60% of the seniors in nursing homes are able to be there because they're covered by Medicaid. (22:43–22:49)

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Asserts that one million Coloradans are enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP.

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