… the extension of badger care, Medicaid coverage for new moms one year postpartum instead of six weeks. And they sure are painting themselves as heroes, aren't they? They're such heroes. It took them seven...years to do this. How many women died or were harmed in the seven years during which they sat on this and allowed their leader to literally just...hold this back for political power while families and communities suffered? There is absolutely no excuse for the behavior that they have had over the last seven years related to postpartum Medicaid. But now for them to be like, well, it was us. (24:05–24:25)
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Asserts that it took seven years to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage, during which women died or were harmed.
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