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Peter Welch: “Mr. Kennedy showed a woeful ignorance even between the…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 01:14

It was not about making health care more affordable, inaccessible. And in response to really a very direct and easy open ended question from Senator Cassidy, Mr. Kennedy showed a woeful ignorance even between the difference between Medicare and Medicaid. So we have a health care system that is not serving as it should, the interest of. Of American citizens, of American businesses and American taxpayers. (01:14–03:11)

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Asserts that Mr. Kennedy lacks understanding of the difference between Medicare and Medicaid.

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