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Shomari Figures: “The largest hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, the state's…”

Featuring: Shomari Figures, Democratic | U.S. House Alabama, 2nd Congressional District

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House Democrats Fight On to Save Healthcare

Published | Video Starts at 23:08

10 of them either do not have a hospital because it has recently closed, or their hospital is on literal life support and they have to go to a county commission or a city council every single month to make payroll. And The largest hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, the state's capital, is in the midst of a bankruptcy and also facing risk of closure. And this all in a state that has the third lowest life expectancy in the United States of America. So health care for us is not a talking point. (23:08–23:12)

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Asserts that the largest hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, is undergoing bankruptcy and may close.

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