… an emergency department, and this was a difficult time in Baltimore's history, there was an enormous heroin up epidemic at the time because this was quite a while ago, and It was pre Affordable Care Act, where people didn't have access to coverage, didn't have access to insurance. So they came into my ER so sick when they could have actually gotten the primary care that they needed and they would never have needed to come into my er. (06:28–06:35)
CLAIM
Asserts that before the Affordable Care Act, people lacked access to coverage and insurance.
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