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Mark Warner: “It takes 16 million Americans off of health care coverage…”

Featuring: Mark Warner, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Senator Mark Warner Discusses Senate Bill, University of Virginia Controversy, and Iran Tensions

Published | Video Starts at 01:30

You can put as much lipstick on this pig as you want. This will, this will be a political albatross for the Republicans. Why? Because It takes 16 million Americans off of health care coverage with cuts to Medicaid and cuts to the Obamacare marketplace. That will move us, a nation, back to the same percentage of uninsured we had before, before Obamacare. And it's not like these people are not going to get sick. (01:30–01:41)

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Asserts that the proposed bill would remove 16 million Americans from health care coverage.

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