But her treatment comes through Medicaid. And she told me, and we did a lot of TV interviews together. So she got a much broader audience. She said, look, If they cut my Medicaid, my husband and I have really horrible choices. We can spend down our entire retirement savings on my cancer treatment, or I can forego it and probably not live as long. And that is a choice no American should have to face. And so we uplift these stories and people learn, and people are organizing around this right now. (15:56–16:17)
CLAIM
Asserts that cutting Medicaid would force individuals to choose between financial ruin or foregoing treatment.
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