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Tina Smith: “One choice is skyrocketing health insurance premiums, or the…”

Featuring: Tina Smith, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Minnesota

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Calling on Republicans to reverse their cuts that kick 15M Americans off of their health insurance.

Published | Video Starts at 14:59

The best time to fix this was weeks ago. But the next best, best time is right now. And we can do better than say to America that you have two choices. One choice is skyrocketing health insurance premiums, or the other choice is decimating the nutrition programs that help people put groceries on the table. That is not a real choice. That is not the choice that I will accept. We can do better than that. (14:59–15:08)

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Asserts that the current choices are between skyrocketing health insurance premiums and decimating nutrition programs.

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