… program which allows hospitals like UMC to purchase outpatient drugs at a discount from pharmaceutical manufacturers for low income communities like ours. This program unfortunately is being targeted by Republicans. I've also worked to prevent direct funding cuts to health care systems like UMC which operate in states like ours, Texas that have rejected the expansion of the Affordable Care Act. And the fact is, these cuts will impact all all of our healthcare systems in El Paso, from our not for profit hospital to our federally qualified health clinics to the private hospital networks. (01:03–01:18)
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Asserts efforts to prevent funding cuts to healthcare systems in states rejecting ACA expansion.
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