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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “There have been no cuts to Medicaid.”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Published | Video Starts at 39:38

We're now having to tighten our belt programs that I protected, I protected and that rust flow protected were the Head Start program. Okay? It is getting no cuts and incidentally, There have been no cuts to Medicaid. Look at this question that I need to ask. Black women are nearly three times as likely to die from pregnancy related causes as white women. (39:38–39:41)

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Asserts that Medicaid has not experienced budget cuts.

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