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Peter Welch: “In Vermont, health care is incredibly expensive for…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Welch Questions Treasury Secretary Nominee Scott Bessent at Confirmation Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 01:30

And one of the things that will be on the block is something that's very, very important to Vermonters, and that's the affordable tax care credits that we have now. So In Vermont, health care is incredibly expensive for everybody. But if we have, just as an example, an electrician in Bennington, Vermont, who's making $67,000 a year with the tax credits that are set to expire, that family would have a $700 a month increase in their health care bill. (01:30–01:34)

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Asserts that health care costs are very high in Vermont.

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