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Jon Ossoff: “When you're born in the state of Georgia, your life…”

Featuring: Jon Ossoff, Democratic | U.S. Senate Georgia

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Ossoff: Something is happening in Georgia | Full Speech | 05.31.2026

Published | Video Starts at 19:57

All this when here in Georgia we already have the second highest uninsured rate in the nation, the third fewest mental health providers, the fourth worst newborn weight at birth. Just wrap your heads around this. When you're born in the state of Georgia, your life expectancy is shorter than if you were born today in Lebanon. a country that's been in a state of, of intermittent war for decades. And now consider this. Our state's economy, just our State's economy is 40 times larger than Lebanon's national economy, but they're living longer than us. (19:57–20:05)

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