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Yadira Caraveo: “I had to compromise what I knew was right for my patients…”

Featuring: Yadira Caraveo, Former U.S. House Representative, Colorado, District 8

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Rep. Yadira Caraveo on ‘a lifetime of being the first’

Published | Video Starts at 03:19

Um, and more and more, I found people saying, well, my insurance company isn't going to pay for that. Um, I can't afford to do it. Um, and. And I had to compromise what I knew was right for my patients, and center it around costs. And so day after day after day, it was not being able to take care of people and not being able to truly practice medicine because of everything that's wrong with our system. (03:19–03:26)

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Asserts that Yadira Caraveo had to make medical decisions based on cost rather than patient care.

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