English subtitles for clip: File:Senator Markey Speaks in Opposition to Nomination of Tom Price for Sec. of HHS - 2-9-17.webm

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Thank You president Mr. president

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tonight I'm here to speak in opposition

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to the nomination of tom price as the

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secretary of health and human services

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and I'm standing here this evening in

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solidarity with millions of Americans

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across this country who thanks to the

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Affordable Care Act had health insurance

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some for the very first time in their

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lives not just access to coverage but

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actual health insurance for themselves

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and for their family coverage that

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provide preventive care without co-pays

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coverage this despite pre-existing

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conditions coverage supported by

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subsidies for those who need it to help

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make health insurance affordable for

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their families

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Tom prices position on healthcare is

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contrary to everything those millions of

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Americans rely upon and it's against

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everything that my state of

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Massachusetts stands for

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so let's take a look at Tom prices

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formula for healthcare for America first

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congressman price wants to repeal the

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Affordable Care Act he wants to bring

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back discrimination against those with

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pre-existing conditions he wants to kick

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the 32 million Americans off their

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health coverage he wants to deprive

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women of reproductive health choices and

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all of this ultimately is going to raise

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prices of insurance of healthcare

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coverage for everyone who has insurance

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right now which is eighty percent of

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america who get their private coverage

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second down place wants to end Medicare

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as we know it he would increase the

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medicare eligibility age and create a

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boat your system that pushes the cost of

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the program directly

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onto seniors and finally he wants to /

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medicaid which provides health care to

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disabled and poor families across this

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country so that's the plan

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this is the Tom Price healthcare plan

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for America in the 21st century one

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repeal the Affordable Care Act two and

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Medicare as we know it three got

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Medicaid and raise premiums for every

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one else in our country no one with any

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sense believes that this is a winning

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formula voting for the Affordable Care

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Act what's the best boat of my entire

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political career and that's because I

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agree with Senator Ted Kennedy that

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healthcare is a right and not a

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privilege and that everyone in our

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country is entitled to health care

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coverage and that that healthcare is the

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solid foundation for our entire country

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to build their lives upon Ralph Waldo

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Emerson said that health is the first

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wealth without help you have nothing and

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that's what the Affordable Care Act is

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all about to give every American the

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first well the most important one the

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access to the health care which they

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need and that is the promise that all

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Americans were made with the Affordable

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Care Act and it's a promise that we

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still must keep before tom price and his

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Republican allies came up with the

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blueprint to dismantle the ACA and put

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their big health insurance companies

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back in charge of your health

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there was a Massachusetts blueprint that

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helped to create that historic health

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care log many of those core fundamental

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that we're from Massachusetts where then

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just built right into the affordable

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care act creating a market place so that

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insurance companies compete for

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customers expanding Medicare to cover

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more low-income residents in our state's

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helping lower

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middle-income people buy insurance with

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tax subsidies encouraging people and

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businesses to buy in so we're all

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splitting the cost and sharing the

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benefits and an employer responsibility

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requirements the large employers to

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offer coverage to their workers now in

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Massachusetts we call this Romneycare

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good Republican program from our

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Republican Governor Romney care then on

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a national level they called it

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Obamacare in Massachusetts we just

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called it successful

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it works good plan right now in

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Massachusetts ninety-eight percent of

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all adults healthcare insurance 99% of

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all children have health insurance

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the Massachusetts unemployment rate is

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two-point-eight percent we're number one

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in math verbal and science at the fourth

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eighth and tenth grades of all 50 states

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we have the cleanest environment in the

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United States we have healthcare for all

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children and all adults and our

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unemployment rate against

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two-point-eight percent it's not a

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choice in fact it's a business plan for

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the state it works to help his family's

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the most educated children in the nation

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the lowest unemployment rate it all

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comes together at the plant now you

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listen to the critic of this idea that

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everyone is entitled to health care you

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would think that it was destroy our

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economy is still waiting for the happen

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as our unemployment rate continues to go

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down and down and down what is up

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I'll tell you what's up cancer

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screenings are up preventive care visits

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her up

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diabetes treatments have gone up health

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disparities most women and minorities I

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down to we are we can do this

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it's a plan it's a plan that actually

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ensure that every child in America every

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family in America really doesn't have to

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worry about something happening some

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bankruptcy taking place because they

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can't afford to help care that one of

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their family members needs and that's

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what

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what's happening before the Affordable

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Care Act passed so what makes

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Massachusetts one of the healthiest

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places in the world to live is in

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jeopardy with the nomination of pump

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right he's coming for this plan he

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doesn't think it works

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he doesn't understand what has happened

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in Massachusetts are across our country

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in fact in the state of Kentucky the

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Democratic governor Governor Beshear in

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Kentucky he instituted this plan in his

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red state and he took the total number

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of people up to ninety five percent of

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total coverage for Kentucky hundreds and

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hundreds of thousands of people now if

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we did that across the whole country

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then we would essentially have of the

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affordable care act of massachusetts in

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the whole country but it's been strong

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resistance from states that are

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ideologically opposed to having this

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kind of a plan be put in place and so

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they're coming for that's a comp rice is

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doing now let me give you an idea as to

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what Tom prices plan does for

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Massachusetts and ultimately for the

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rest of the country that it's adopted

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the plan and Massachusetts alone there

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will be an average per person loss of

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2280 dollars in tax credits 83,000

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seniors and people with disabilities may

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lose one thousand dollars per year and

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save prescription drug costs we could

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lose an estimated fifty seven thousand

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jobs just in Massachusetts with all

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these services just being eliminated we

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have the loss of 1.85 billion dollars in

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Medicaid expansion funding and the loss

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of more than 700 million in federal

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premium tax credits and cost-sharing

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reduction payments for middle-income

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families we also have to consider the

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Affordable Care Act prevention and

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public health fund its what went wrong

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without healthcare system in the 20th

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century we were running at

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sick care system not a healthcare system

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and so what the Affordable Care Act did

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was it begins to shift the emphasis

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towards prevention how do you stop

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people from getting sick in the first

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place

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that's the way we should be viewing

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disease in our country and the

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Affordable Care Act is our government

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single largest investment in prevention

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since enactment of the ACA the

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prevention fund has provided more than 5

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billion dollars to states and

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communities across the country to

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support community-based prevention

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programs nationally the prevention fund

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also funneled hundreds of millions into

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the preventive health services block

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grant these grants have been critical in

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Massachusetts for example helping our

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communities respond to the heroin

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prescription drug and sentinel crisis

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unfortunately for all of us home prices

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assault on healthcare wouldn't stop

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there are some prices march on the

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Affordable Care Act which / medicaid and

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listen to this number which case for one

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out of every five dollars in America for

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substance use disorder treatment the

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repeal of Medicaid expansion would rip

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coverage from 1.6 million Americans

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newly insured Americans who have

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substance use disorders we have an

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opiate of a crisis in America attention

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on Christ prescription drug prices

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people are dying at recognize numbers

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but Tom prices from closing is to take

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1.6 million Americans who are receiving

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treatment right now and just stripped

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them of this health care benefit what

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happens to them we know what happens if

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you don't have treatment we know what

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happens to be don't have prevention when

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you have a drug problem

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it leads inexorably inevitably towards a

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conclusion which is now affecting 10,000

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people in America every single year and

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that is death

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you tell these 1.6 million people they

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no longer have coverage your sentence

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you that your sentencing them to

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consequences which I don't think our

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country wants to see so I've served in

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Congress for nearly 40 years and I've

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never seen anything like this

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opioid epidemic never Massachusetts

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2,000 people died last year only two

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percent of america's population the

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whole country was dying and I rate that

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would be a hundred thousand people a

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year in our country died from drug

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overdoses that's to Vietnam was every

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single year with top right is saying is

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he's gonna rip away the Affordable Care

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Act funding for those who have substance

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use nationally opioids have now killed

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more people than gun violence auto

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accidents and many people who have

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substance use disorder benefits and

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protections under the ACA it's guarantee

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the funding is their place

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so this is for me just one perfect

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example of many many examples which I

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could use in order to kind of just give

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people an insight as to the harm which

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is going to be done the vulnerable

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families all across our country now

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Donald Trump is dragging today that he's

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going to provide a big-league tax cut

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big league for businesses in America

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big-league tax breaks for the wealthiest

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people in our country big-league that's

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a commitment the wealthiest will get a

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big tax break businesses will get a big

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tax breaks

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well where would have money come from

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well in order to pay for the Affordable

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Care Act hospitals across the country

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kicked in about five hundred billion

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dollars over ten years in order to help

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with the cost but the hospital to see

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something in return because of the men

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Kate subsidies for patients they would

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now have insurance and when they showed

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up at the hospital they would actually

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have insurance coverage so that would

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help the hospitals have the revenue they

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need in order to take care of business

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and said many fewer people are now going

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to arrive at the emergency room the

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uncomplicated care that is the funding

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which the hospital just had to provide

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for patients uses walked into an

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emergency room would not be dramatically

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reduced because they would the patients

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would have insurance on the Affordable

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Care Act and that 500 billion dollars

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that they had promised to the federal

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government that would not be an

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expenditure that would be the trade-off

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how can you say to yourself what's the

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Republican plan now

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well what they're saying is that they're

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going to kill these subsidies that have

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reduced the number of people going into

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emergency room who do not have insurance

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and I got a trip that way you don't have

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a plan

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this is the top price plan

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nothing but they are also think that

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they're not going to give back the money

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to the hospitals which had been used in

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order to view with the uncompensated

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care so it's a con job president says

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it's going to be give a big tax breaks

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to the wealthiest in our country big tax

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breaks to the businesses in the country

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where's the money coming from with the

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piggy bank

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here's the piggy bank the piggy bank is

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the money that was being used to give

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insurance to the people to go to

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hospitals with their families that money

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will be taken away and then we'll use it

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the tax breaks for the wealthiest that's

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a con job of the first order you're

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taking it for the people who need it the

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most

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for the health care preventive services

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for the families and handed it over to

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the people who need it

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delete the wealthiest the businesses in

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the country the con job that's what it's

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all about

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get the money in hand it over to the

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largest constituencies in the Republican

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Party and who is the architect tom price

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price is that why you would destroy this

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healthcare system is that why you would

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cut back on Medicare is that why you

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would got Medicaid you do it so you can

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have huge tax breaks for the wealthiest

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in our society that is an unacceptable

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plant it makes him an unacceptable

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candidate to be the secretary of health

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and human services in our country we

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have a raging epidemic of opioids we

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have all kinds of problems that can be

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dealt with the people have the insurance

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coverage and they know they can go in in

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order to get the help they need

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now let's just go with the Medicare

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program because they want to save money

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there to holiday going to accomplish

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that well it was doom and gloom

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prospects about the about the Medicare

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programs that came from the Republicans

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Tom Price himself but just the opposite

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happens the Medicare programs since the

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Affordable Care Act went into place has

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resulted in the lowest per member rate

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of spending growth in its 50-year

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history of Medicare premiums paid by

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enrollees the medicare part b and parky

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have gone down against all the

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predictions of its of its opponents and

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perhaps more importantly the savings

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have contributed to keeping the promise

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to America's seniors by ensuring that

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Medicare will continue to be their

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father he has a big number point is a

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big number for Medicare had previously

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faced a projected insolvent fee that

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could have occurred this year this year

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Medicare insolvent however because of

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the Affordable Care Act it extended the

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insolvency date of Medicare trust by 12

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years

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good news seniors repealing the law

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jeopardizes Medicare for a generation of

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Americans but tom price doesn't just

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want to repeal the Affordable Care Act

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the second part of the healthcare

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assault is to transform Medicare into a

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voucher program and increasing the

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medicare eligibility age after a

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lifetime of hard work

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congressman price would make seniors

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wait longer for the benefits they ever

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earned now so my father was the milkman

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for the window company his arms with the

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sides of my legs not men more card will

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call people work hard across our country

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working class people work hard

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should they have to wait until they're

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66 67 68 69 to receive a Medicare

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benefit they worked hard so that makes

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no sense whatsoever that's Tom Price how

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do you increase the age and when people

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can receive Medicare coverage for their

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help with the old in order to save money

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for what purpose do they have a tax

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breaks for the wealthiest who already

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have all the money they needed to take

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care of the health care of their

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families

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that's one thing you never have to worry

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about the wealthy in America of all the

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money they need for their families

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want to know another thing the higher

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your income more likely you're going to

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live longer than people who don't have

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money don't have to worry about those

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wealthy people they find their help us

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find the children's health is going to

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be taken care of any problems in their

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families fine about the other kids in

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our country about the other families in

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our country that's what this plant does

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they will delete that plan in order to

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get more money to the people who already

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have enough little rest of their lives

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so that would wind up increasing

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premiums for Grandma and Grandpa by

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hundreds of dollars i can pay more out

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of pocket for less care and what Tom

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Price essentially want to do is to get

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into the Wayback Machine and return us

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to a time when corporate insurance

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companies were calling the shots in our

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country actual time when a person could

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go bankrupt because of medical bills

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that

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in time when Americans had to choose

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between paying the rent and paying for a

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life-saving medical treatment the

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Affordable Care Act move our country

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from being a sick care system to a

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healthcare system but congressman price

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want to undo all that progress and get

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rid of all of those protections so

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here's Tom prices bottom line appeal the

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affordable care act which results in

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fewer insured patients and that equals

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more patients in the emergency room and

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higher premium for everyone else that

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formula is as bogus as a degree from

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truck university it doesn't add up the

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people who have to paper everyone else's

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insurance policies that are going to go

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up because you better believe the

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hospital and insurance companies when

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that money is not there in the

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Affordable Care Act but affordable care

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act insurance policies to those people

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and you don't get back to 300 to 500

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billion dollars that the hospitals have

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now committed a back to the federal

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government

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somebody's going to have to pay and you

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don't have to be get Tracy to figure

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this out the people who are going to pay

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for every other American that has an

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insurance policy

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it'll just about 5% 10-percent

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15-percent everybody else insurance

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policy the hospitals are getting their

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dull insurance companies are getting

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their dough when people go to an

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insurance when people go to an emergency

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room they're not going to be turned away

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somebody's going to have to pay and

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where's the payment going to come from

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everybody else insurance policy which is

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going up and the money that had been

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saved

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it's going to the federal government for

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tax breaks in the Trump administration

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he said he said today big-league tax

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breaks for the wealthy big-league tax

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breaks for big business

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great great no and that's the plan if

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you kicked in the hot you break yourself

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what's the hardener example what about

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people who need help

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cross our side

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dr. Martin Luther King jr. said that of

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all forms of inequality injustice in

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health care is the most shocking and the

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most kinky me you cannot work if you are

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ill you cannot learn if you are sick

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cannot be secure if you are constantly

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worried that medical bills to wipe out

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your entire savings these clearly on not

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concerns that Tom Price who has the

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legislative history that has repeatedly

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favored wealthy corporations and

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individuals over the health of the

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majorities of Americans congressman

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price champion legislation that would

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eliminate young adults ability to stay

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on their parents plan until age 26

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congressman price trumpeted a plan that

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would let insurance reinstate lifetime

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and annual limits on coverage and charge

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women more because of the agenda comp

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right

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whipper whip away the Affordable Care

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Act income-based subsidies and instead

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often inadequate tax credits that can be

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given equally to a billionaire as to

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middle-class working-class boo call

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America tom price had his way and

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implement a plan that would cause health

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insurance premiums in the individual

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market to skyrocket increasing premiums

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for average Americans by up to twenty

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five percent immediately and doubling

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over the next ten years he wants to

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strip Planned Parenthood of all of its

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resources 2.5 million patients would

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lose access to care and those

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communities clinics all across the

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country if that happened at fewer

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mammograms you a prenatal exam shua

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cancer screenings less preventive care

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at a loss of all those vital services

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would hit women of color and low-income

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women hottest that would increase help

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in equity and health disparities in our

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communities of color but Tom Price

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assault on women's health doesn't end

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there

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he has proposed legislation that would

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allow health insurance companies to

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charge women more than men has

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repeatedly voted to cut two-minute

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access to family planning services he

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does not believe that women should get

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birth control with no out-of-pocket

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costs here's an outspoken and barely

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opponent of reproductive health and

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would push women's reproductive rights

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back to the 18th century good physical

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health and reproductive freedom are

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critical to supporting women

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that's productive members of the

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household and our economy we cannot

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allow pump price to turn back the clock

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so this is the challenge we have an

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administration committed to increasing

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defense spending big time increasing tax

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breaks to the wealthiest and the

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corporation's big time and then

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promising to cut the federal budget by

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10 trillion dollars over the next 10

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years

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where's the money going to come from we

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know what they're targeting exciting all

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these programs that help those who need

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to help the most in our society so I

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urge my colleagues to vote no on this

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nomination of Congressman price the

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wrong man at the wrong time with the

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wrong job it just doesn't match up

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not with the 21st century strategy that

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we need to have the healthiest

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population in the world to compete

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against our economic rivals across the

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planet but if for no other reason just

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the moral obligation we have to make

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sure that families are not desperate

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when their loved ones hurting so I thank

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you mr. president to give me the

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opportunity to come out here at this

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time and I urge my colleagues to vote no

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on congressman prices nomination and I

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yield back the balance of my time