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Raphael Warnock: “They cut a trillion dollars out of Medicaid, which means…”

Featuring: Raphael Warnock, Democratic | U.S. Senate Georgia

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Senator Warnock Delivers Remarks at Center For American Progress

Published | Video Starts at 39:33

I wish I could get my friends on the other side of the aisle to stand up for their own people in some of these red counties that didn't vote for me whose hospitals are closing because they caught a trillion. They cut a trillion dollars out of Medicaid, which means they put 15 million people off of their health care. they're now doubling the premiums for 22 million people, doubling them on average. For some, it's tripling and quadrupling. (39:33–39:36)

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Asserts that a trillion-dollar cut to Medicaid resulted in 15 million people losing health care.

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