medicaid home and community-based services. republican and democratic governors alike desperately need this change. the house already passed this 10% f-map increase months ago, and the senate must follow suit in any covid relief deal that is reached. real-world experience has tragically demonstrated how vulnerable congregate care settings are to deadly super spreader events like covid-19. and we know from existing data that americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities are killed at far higher rates than other americans when infected with covid-19. so investing in state efforts to provide medicaid services to vulnerable populations in the safety of their own homes is just a commonsense policy that would save countless lives. second, senate republicans must abandon efforts to gut the a.d.a. once and for all. disability rights are human rights, and these civil rights must never become optional benefits that can be taken away whenever it's convenient or cheaper for employers and those who are in power. allowing busine

prior to covid-19 but that is not all of medicaid. one in three children benefited, two thirds of all nursing home residents in pennsylvania benefited from medicaid andtwo in five people with disabilities depend on medicaid in our states . i mentioned in my testimony that my own organization, 57 percent of our patients are at or below 100 percent of poverty and 86 percent of our patients are at or below 200 percent of poverty area nearly every patient retrieve 77 percent of whom are people of color are eligible for medicaid or subsidies to the marketplace to help with coverage . back to our recession, people lost coverage through their employer . medicaid was due to health and that's the reason we haven't. in 2008 2009, what we saw ben is going to be reflected in what we see now if things don't change. i do not think it should take an act of congress to make sure that states canrespond to those needs and i do not think the state should be allowed because medicaid is definitely needed . i'd like to thank you for introducing legislation

so medicaid is. dentist essential to the affordable care act -- so medicaid is essential to the affordable care act. on day one of our majority, our freshman last went down there and forth a resolution that we are going to this in court and we are indeed doing that. , purplea sad note today and white for suffragettes, an important issue for women. martin luther king said, of all the inequalities, the one that is horrible and inhumane was the inequality and health care, because people could die. obamas why president and -- president obama and vice leadership let's us to pass the affordable care act. president biden and vice president harris will be expanding in strength neighing and- expanding strengthening it. lost twougust 25, we of our heroes. ted kennedy, not only an inspiration but also a leader in establishing the affordable care act, he died 11 years ago yesterday. two years ago yesterday, john away, a hero in saving the affordable air act. -- affordable care act. so people have acted with lien

trump wants to cut medicare, medicaid and social security.thing you're talking about, just throw it in. >> paul, let me ask you about health care, you also talked about health care in the book. president trump proposed a couple of weeks ago that he was going to come up with a health care plan. in your book you said we need to hammer donald trump on cutting, taking away health care, explain why? >> this is why nancy pelosi is speaker again. 41 districts who had republican congressmen voted them out and put democrats in because we are the party of health care and i'm -- you know, somebody told me this, donna, i don't know if it's the public but i know it's true. they said when president obama met with president elect trump, one of the things president obama said, just take my name off of it and make it trump care, it doesn't matter. what a big hearted thing. it's pretty amazing. of course, trump didn't listen and he should have. now that president obama is gone and obamacare has never been more popular. the joke i say to right-wing friends, oba

encouraging states to expand medicaid. wants to eliminate what the affordable care act has done to expand medicare and medicaid. in terms of medicaid, this is essential. with peopleamilies who have disabilities in them. important and essential to the affordable care act. from day one, with our freshman leading the way, in this congress come in the majority, our freshman class put forth a resolution that we will fight this in court and we are indeed doing that. this is a sad note today. purple and white for suffragists. this is an important issue for women that is for sure. the mostther king said horrible inequality was in health care, because people could die. that is why through president obama's and vice president biden's leadership, we passed the affordable care act that is andunder president biden vice president harris, it will be strengthened. yesterday, august 25, in different years, we lost two of kennedy, anted inspiration and a leader in establishing the affordable care act. he died 11 years ago yesterday. two yea

and then we are paying them for anyone who is on medicaid, we are paying them a higher medicaid reimbursementwise, most of these individuals are medicare. >> reporter: according to state data, the isolation centers receive around $325 a day per covid patient. at cohen's grandfather's facility, 21 covid patients currently [ technical difficulties ] . in a statement -- reside there. in a statement, she said it is providing excellent care saying it follows all cdc guidelines and has a separate entrance and air flow and a designated team. >> we all know what went down in new york just a few months before. why are we tempting fate? >> reporter: in new york, around 6,500 people are briefed to have died of the -- believed of to died of the coronavirus in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. >> they have to readmit covid-positive residents, but only if they have the ability to provide the adequate level of care. >> reporter: governor andrew cuomo and the department of health have been criticized for directing those facilities back in march to take in coronavirus patients to relieve stress on

i've worked in arkansas, we were the first southern state to expand medicaid. we couldn't do that without working across all lines. i was a part of a group of bipartisan legislators who created a world class pre-k system that we had not had. and when we move together, we can do these kind of things such as the expanded health care for 300,000 people and right now we have somebody this congress who is trying to take that away. black women have had to work and be multitaskers in ways that others have not even thought about. and this is a voice that needs to be in congress. suppose i were a person there

i have noticed that we haven't really had not been hearing a lot about a potential increase for medicaid but is this still a priority and have any of you been hearing from your governors about what cuts they might have to make for medicaid if they don't get additional increase? >> if i could answer that, jim. >> please. >> the heroes act that we passed in the house has a significant increase for the states recognizing the fact that as more people lose their jobs or lose their income that more people are eligible for medicaid and that states aren't going to have the money so we have a significant increase over and above what we have had before. i might think it might be up another 14%. the bottom line is yes, we are hearing from the states and generally we hear from our states in new jersey and a lot of the other states and i think this is all part and parcel of what carolyn maloney said with new york and new jersey and other states that have had huge revenue losses because of covid and so if we don't have a significant map increase and don't have the wrecked state and local aid to make u

get access to it i think that's a problem now i will say this some of these public systems like medicaid do need to be reformed because it is not the case that you can simply continue spending as much as you're spending doing as much as you're doing and expect those programs to continue to exist the sustainability of those programs relies on good reform and that's why it's important to try and think about efforts on even if i would agree with you and there's a big debate about sustainability and debt and how much debt trump is out it but the bigger question is in the middle of a pandemic as we discussed earlier in the program 27000000 people may have just lost their health insurance is now the time to be cutting medicaid is now the time to be going to the supreme court and saying to strike down the whole of obamacare including patients who have preexisting conditions 20000000 people would lose their insurance on top of the 27000000 who are lost if obamacare went tomorrow is this the time no wonder people say this is just hopeless yeah it probably isn't the time ok just putting coronaviru

we were one of the first states to expand medicaid. it is working here in kentucky. cannotallenge to the aca only remove coverage for pre-existing conditions but also eliminate expanded medicaid. that would crush every rural hospital. people in appalachia might need to drive three hours just to see a doctor. health care is critically important. there need to be updates to the affordable care act. expanded medicaid is the difference between life and death right now for so many people across the country. gov. whitmer: you have been saving and preserving medicare expansion. i want to talk for a minute about the unifying issues. we have talked about health care. but what you think of the unifying issues that you think helped bring together your state despite the tribalism and polarization? is misinformation about what and what is being whispered about. navigate in the moment before covid and what do see happening after that will continue to unify? we have had a wild year and a half. there have been some wonderful moments where we were able to do some good work around bri

voters are deciding today and tonight whether they're going to expand medicaid. expansion of medicaid is part of obamacare, which is something republicans are still trying to kill entirely. but missouri voters are voting on whether to do it any way. it could provide health insurance coverage to over 400,000 people in missouri, if they decide to do it. of course, over the objections of republican lawmakers in the state. if missouri voters say yes, missouri would become the sixth republican controlled state to vote to expand medicaid at the ballot box just since trump has been president. they would follow oklahoma, maine, nebraska, idaho. as of right now, we're watching the results come in, in missouri. it's obviously early yet, but if missouri votes to expand medicaid, again, against the wishes of its republican lawmakers and legislators, that would be a huge deal for hundreds of thousands of people in that state being able to get health insurance. results continue to come in. watch this space. what if i sleep hot? ... or cold? introducing the new sleep number 360

on some of the ads by the president, social critic, medicare, medicaid issues are on the ballot. this is one of the ads. cutoe biden tried to medicare for decades. >> we should freeze federal spending. i meant medicare and medicaid. >> i tried a third time. >> now, joe biden is promising costsesident trump's lowering and expanding access. so security is often an issue in every election. it is this one any different? bitt: it's a little different than past campaigns thethat it's harder to hang albatross of wanted to cut social security or medicaid around donald trump. he has come out forcefully against it. i think what's going on in that ad, people are predisposed to think democrats don't want to cut social security. what's probably going on is convincing people on the left who don't like joe biden because they think he's too conservative that it's worth it to stay home. that is probably the target for that ad. host: will it work? guest: i don't think so. this is a 2016 where donald trump is the outsider with no track record. he's been president for four years. the far-left despis

, a risky, $550 billion tax scheme that will force them to ask for even bigger cuts in medicare, medicaideducation and the environment than they passed and i vetoed last year. but even then, they will not cover the cost of their scheme, so that even then this plan will explode the deficit, which will increase interest rates by 2 percent, according to their own estimates last year. it will require huge cuts in the very investments we need to grow, and to grow together, and at the same time slow down the economy. you know what higher interest rates mean. to you, it means a higher mortgage payment, a higher car payment, a higher credit card payment. to our economy, it means business people will not borrow as much money, invest as much money, create as many new jobs, create as much wealth, raise as many wages. do we really want to make that same mistake all over again? >> no! clinton: do we really want to stop economic growth again? do we really want to start piling up another mountain of debt? do we want to bring back the recession of 1991 and '92? >> no! clinton: do we want to weaken our br

part two, medicaid. medicaid pays for half, half of all births. 67% of seniors in skilled nursing facilities. sen. harris: one out of two california children. >> we would also like to hear what you are doing to protect medicaid. sen. harris: i appreciate that. i thank you for your work. i will break the news. i intend to cosponsor the medicaid for all bill. [applause] [cheers and applause] and, because it is just the right thing to do. somebody should tell my staff. you are right. you are right. again, this is part of our ongoing fight to make very clear, one, this should not be a partisan issue. it should not even be a bipartisan issue. it should be a nonpartisan issue. babies are born not democrat or republican. one in two california babies. this is about understanding again, health care should be a , right, not a privilege. it is also about being smart. it is also about being smart. it is so much better that people have meaningful access to affordable health care at every stage of life, from birth on,

obviously, his budgets offer massive cuts to medicaid, social security, and education.efuseda president who to support extending what we accomplished in the cares act, millions of people who desperately need that $600 check that they were getting. i don't even think you can pull this off, and certainly not every state will be involved and get the $300 and $1200 extension. this is a president who lied and turned his back on the working-class under a new administration. bob: senator, what would you like to hear tonight from vice president biden? would you like to hear him specifically underscore his support for a public option? anything else like that? sen. sanders: i think that joe is going to have to make the case, and he's certainly prepared to do it, to the absolute necessity of moving this country in a very, very different direction than trump has let us. -- led us. but i think his speech cannot simply be he, we have to get rid of trump. and i think wyden understands this -- biden understands this. pandemic,t of the tens of millions have lost their jobs. you've got p

i'm personally delighted by the notion that of moving medicaid exemption.i bought a long time we would never solve this problem people can't get funded services because they incarcerated and many times they get incarcerated because they had a psychiatric problem so i think i can makea huge difference . in terms of you also mentioned school providers and that is something that congress needs to attend to because they are really the bedrock of public sector substance abuse programs, an entity health centers are taking care of the disenfranchised population, now having tremendous problems currently because they are not beneficiaries of most of the covid funding that's been coming from the federal government. >> i wanted to also ask i recently was visited with our , my time is getting short. i also was visiting with our state prison recently and i was told that 100 percent of the women in the state prison are survivors of trauma, sexual assault, domestic violence, abuse and neglect as children. we are very concerned during covid, i chair the task force and sexual violence and we recently h

there are still a lot of people who fell through the cracks, not just in spaces that expand medicaid, because so much of our private insurances is tied to people's jobs. going further, to have more access to care, would be important. in our saw the huge gaps public health infrastructure, our surveillance, our ability to detect and react quickly to increases in disease prevalence, i think the failures of that were in sharp relief. david: that is something we do not hear that much about. that is the failures of the infrastructure of our public health system. is there any move to have further investment? what investment do we need across the country and is it federal money, is it state money? where does it come from? katherine: we need more federal money and federal leadership on consistent and timely data reporting. flying blind and this is a recipe for flareups that are not addressed as quickly as they could be and much more draconian steps needed down the road. there needs to be a uniform infrastructure for reporting because the disease crosses state borders. health care resources nee

. >> why it was voted to expand medicaid that would allow missourians to opt into medicaid, what stepsn congress to expand access to all americans? >> so i've been a very loud and proud advocate for medicare for all. as a registered nurse, seeing my patients die because they don't have health care or they have the access but not the money, that shouldn't be on people. you breathe, you deserve health care. so that's one thing that i'll be fighting for. i'm so glad that 53% of missourians voted yes to expand medicaid but i believe we can do more. i'll be working with those pushing for medicare for all. but we also need covid-19 relief and we need it now. a $2,000 a month that will be retroactive, we need that and we need to continue cancelling utility shutoffs and i'm one to continue to push for that. >> all right, kori buscori bush you for being here with us. my next guest, massachusetts congressman joe kennedy who is looking to unseat ed markey, an incumbent who began his washington career in 1976. we invited senator markey to join us today but his schedule would not permit it. congres

are you word the cutbacks hurt people with medicaid and prescriptions? pres.rump: post office is running very well. if you look at the post office, or years that is all people complained about. we are going to run it well and not lose so much money. the thing they lose so much money on is delivering packages for amazon in these others. lose -- deliver a package, they lose three or four dollars. they need to raise those prices for the amazon and those pay. why are you opposed to mail-in ballots when they cannot be hacked? pres. trump: absentee ballots are great here you request a absentee ballot are great they work and have been proven and they work like in laura. universal male and is a very dangerous thing. it is fraught with fraud and every other thing that can happen. we have to be careful. we have a very big election coming up and i think we will do well. i want to make sure the election is not someone -- stolen, and ensure both sides feel that way we have to be careful with universal mail-in ballots. absentee ballots are great. they have worked for a long

and then for the forgotten man , the addition of medicaid and the addition medicare and the building of the safety net, the extension of roosevelt's new deal safety net. that is how the forgotten man was covered. in obamacare, i think there's a huge tip now to the scale that the american people are only now seeing. in order to cover the uncovered , and i'm not an economist but hoover economists have pointed out that probably only about 15% of the american people could not get health insurance who wanted to get it. so in order to meet their needs we had to federalize the whole system. now people are waking up that it's illegal to have the policy. it's not just whether the president promised it but it's also a liberty moment. i can't have this policy that i worked for and we all agreed that i would have. it's now illegal to have that policy. they just restated that yesterday in california. we are not going to allow those policies to be. instead you need a more expensive policy that probably has things that at least in the case of my children in their things that they don't want. 20's,

predatory monopoly pricing i think more to the point was this is now we're on the glide path for medicaid and medicare for all yeah i think that's what trump is setting the population up for medicare for all which is going to be a huge vote winner and i think that's what this whole drug policy from canada is all about well we'll see there and of course if we ever do. get to leave our homes if lockdown ever does and it will look very different so when we emerge from summer solutions we are going to drive around to go check and see how the world has differed brick and mortar retailers malls mall wreaths and their debts the whole schmear is coming apart there's just no good way out the only thing that is surprising is how long these retailers are malls which have been spiraling down for years were able to hold on because the chart this is a wall street you know index themselves they composed this and that's the biggest and how much they've collapsed it's down 074 percent from their high in 2016 and it looks like that's a disaster who knows by the time we come back from some of solutions ther

>> the one who started the consumer network and the consumer program was able to get medicaid for the consumers that were counseling their peers and had 500 peter certified mental health specialists. they go from communities a lot of people come to see them but they go into communities limiting with mental illness. and then spreading it across the country. but there is one in maryland because i had a book signing someone in the network with my consumer network friends. but it is growing in the reason i'm optimistic about the future is with what we know about medication and treatment from research and from the consumers to help people recover the movement is too strong and that i thought if they covered mental illness it's all right to have it. [laughter] it would legitimize it. and now learning so much about prevention and building resilience in children. we have learned mental illnesses sometimes developmental. and 50 percent of all mental illnesses are diagnosed in children by age 14. 75 percent by age 24. for any parents here with babies and we need parenting classes. because when

predatory practices he's just saying people you know medicare medicaid patients and others can go imports and drugs from canada but on the other hand you know it does present a nasdaq like pricing possibility on the pharmaceuticals tesla sells like $500000000.00 with the cars and they're worth $300000000000.00 so perhaps they could say you know we're going to electrify these pharmaceuticals you know they could do something to give you this imagination of this huge market in abundance and they're going to you know transport these pharmaceuticals to mars and venus and who knows like you could see price and multiples increase once they destroy that predatory monopoly pricing i think more to the point was this is now we're on the glide path for medicaid and medicare for all yeah i think that's what trump is setting the population up for medicare for all but there's going to be a huge vote winner and i think that's what this whole drug policy from canada is all about well we'll see there and of course if we ever do. get to leave our homes if lockdown ever does and it will look very different s

predatory monopoly pricing but i think more to the point was this is now we're on the glide path for medicaid and medicare for all yeah i think that's what trump is setting the population up for medicare for all which is going to be a huge vote winner and i think that's what this whole drug policy from canada is all about well we'll see there and of course if we ever do. get to leave our homes if lockdown ever does and it will look very different so when we emerge from summer solutions we are going to drive around to go check and see how the world has differed brick and mortar retailers malls mall wreaths and their debts the whole schmear is coming apart there's just no good way out the only thing that is surprising is how long these retailers are malls which have been spiraling down for years were able to hold on because the chart this is a wall street you know index themselves they composed this and that's the the biggest and how much they've collapsed it's down 074 percent from their high in 2016 and it looks like that's a disaster who knows by the time we come back from some of solutions

states biggest expenses, typically in then state budget the two biggest items are education and medicaidt forget all that. democrats are demanding that we've sent state and local governments a colossal amount of money with no relationship to actual need while they've only spent a quarter, 25%, of the money they have already gotten. clearly this isn't about covid. democrats think they smell an opening may have wanted for years to make uncle sam bailed out decades of mismanagement and broken policies in place like new york, new jersey and california. and so they decided that no working family anywhere in america can get another set, not one cent, unless they get to create a trillion dollars slush on for mismanage states completely and totally out of proportion to pandemic needs. here's another one of those demands. nobody gets another dime endlessly into and pay people more to stay home and go back to work. now, mr. president, republicans agree without to continue additional federal jobless benefits during this extraordinary time. senate republicans tried several times to stop them from ex

. >> and i assume that mississippi has not expanded medicaid, right?ld that help you if there was expanded medicaid in your state? >> absolutely. and our city resembles the dem graphic that is most impacted by this virus. so this is very dire circumstance here in jackson, mississippi. >> yeah. well, we'll be praying for all of you in jackson. we thank you for coming on, mayor. dr. roy, thank you so much. always great to talk with you. >>> still ahead, listen to what president trump had to say about his upcoming convention. >> great, great people making speeches. i'll probably do mine live from the white house. >> in the words of one republican senator, is that even legal? we'll find out next. don't go anywhere. ext. don't go anywhere. we see you....looking out for all of us. but you can't lose sight of your own well-being especially if you have a serious chronic medical condition. at aetna, we're always here to help you focus on your health. because it's always time for care. is a friendly neighbor. they're teachers, retirees, vets, people committed to

the states that had republican Ãdid not expand medicaid people lost their lives.e minimum wage, protect additional civil rights. past gun control laws. we have to restructure the party and i put ideas forward in the book that make it easier for the party to focus on those things but it's a real mentality shift. the one i think we really would be gone to see since 2016 and the successes in virginia 2017 at around the country 2018 our product is best. >> the democratic national convention errors this week on c-span beginning monday and culminates with joe biden's acceptance speech on thursday. next in booktv look at books about the democrat presidential candidate and the dnc efforts to win the white house is political strategist paul à thoughts on what the party needs to do to win the election. he is joined in conversation by former democratic national committee chairwoman donna brazil.>> the presidency is still just a job interview and if somebody's a horrible person but they can do a really good job. i didn't connect it up to the retiring in pennsylvania or the of

we gave them money for medicaid. medicaid costs are down. we gave them money for schools. school costs have been down. we were talking about helping our schools with money to reopen. i am all in favor of helping our schools. should we say tell us what you are real needs are? how much of the money have you spent and how have you spent it? they do not want to give us anymore money -- they do not want to give us any information but they want us to give them more money. as a person you would never do that, why which we do it as a government? david: you've seen the reports the president of united states may be considering an executive order such as unemployment insurance, such as a moratorium on evictions. would you encourage the president to do that if democrats and republicans cannot get together? sen. scott: we have three branches of government. we ought to make government work. i know the president cares about the people that have lost their jobs. i know the president cares about reopening the economy. we have to force the three branches of government to do their jobs. look

also for our medicaid and other government run healthcare programs. the most insidious way in which we pay for healthcare is that it is coming out of our wages and we don't even realize it. if you look at the data that in the last 50 to 60 years for the average american wages have essentially stayed flat. even though the american economy has grown considerably in 50 to 60 years. instead of sena and rising wages. most of the difference is actually going to cover our healthcare costs. employers are using their increased earnings to just cover our healthcare. is not just our healthcare for today. one piece of data that i discovered it when i was working and doing research was that employers taking money out of our retirement. in the past we have gone to our retirement funds. is actually being used for covering our healthcare today. we are paying for it multiple times over. that were all aligned about people's health being the most important thing. those doctors want you to be as healthy as possible. another one of these groups that has these contracts a

to the growth in the medicaid going. oh my god this is the most of the season you know. why people are going to the 2nd grade so we're not even done with the 1st wave. little movement going to be so much. the same mass was going on behind those walls the richest country most powerful oil and yet has the worst response there's there while country. i do my. research group and. you're doing nothing about the level of deaths are going to be so great. the dead we're going to have to bury them maybe and. maybe in potters. this truly has become a symbol of the current and in new york. prosecutors and in a criminal case over allegations the opposition's newly formed ordination council is a legally trying to seize power something the back body denies. this why the warnings against meddling and valorous european leaders agree to imposing sanctions on prompting accusations of hypocrisy. russian opposition figurehead i would say the only it is rushed to hospital in a coma after falling ill during a flight with a team claiming he was poisoned. and counted as a prime minister is accus

he said he would protect social security, medicare and medicaid.al security. trump is a liar. he will say and do anything to get elected, but he is not to be believed, and i think if you look at his record, that becomes clear. >> trevor: let's talk a little bit about your favorite subject, billionaires. there is no denying that, during this pandemic, although many millions of people have been suffering, some of the richest people in the world have seen their net worth's increase 200, 300, 400 percent. you have not been afraid to say that this needs to be reined in, you have not been afraid to go after the billionaires. how do you say to somebody, hey, if you become a billionaire, we'll tax you more. because i'm sure you encountered these people who said, bernie, god bless jeff bezos, he made a lot of money and deserves all he gets. do you think you're reshaping the american dream or do you think people have to understand what the american dream is? >> trevor, i think a couple of points. first of all, when you say to the average american that we've

my agency working with the housing agency leverage section eight housing funding with medicaid funding for mental health services to address homelessness. as a result of this we were able to improve mental health outcomes, able to get over 800 people off of the streets of philadelphia and we save literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. a win-win-win. we need improvement on a number of fronts. as would be addressed by the array of bills before you today. this include stronger parity enforcement, enactment of the parity and addiction equality act of 2008 was a major step forward and my fellow panelist and good friend congressman kennedy, we will forever come will ever deserve our thanks and gratitude for leading this fight which were proud to be a part of along with our friends and many other groups. unfortunately, parity has not reached its sole potential and we need support for the parity bill before the committee to strengthen existing law. we also need to give patients that access to mental health and substance use providers. one of the bills before you, h.r. 884, the medicare me

vacant beds to make sure those beds are available, and then we are paying them for anybody who ais on medicaid. we're paying them a higher rate. otherwise, most of these individuals are medicare. >> according to state data the isolation centers receive around $3 the 25 a day per covid patient. at this facility 21 currently reside there. she says it's committed to providing excellent care adds that the covid unit follows all cdc guidelines and has a separate entrance and air flow and a designated team. >> we all know what went down in new york just a few months before. why are we tempting fate? >> in new york, 6500 people are believed to have died in nursing holes and lock-term health care facilities. >> they have to admit positive residents but i'm if they have the ability to provide the adequate level of care. >> governor groem comeau and the department of health have been criticized after backlash they added a requirement that hospitals could not discharming patients unless they tested nell active. >> my anything is to get justice for the seniors. >> she began temporarily living at our lady

in the last 50 years, which is a belief that all americans deserve a right to health care, and so medicaid and medicare were passed, health insurance was passed, the affordable care act was passed, all with democratic presidents putting a stake in the ground to move further and further toward universal coverage. i think we're continuing that coverage that that -- i think we are continuing that journey. withampaign has halted covid in march, and the biden campaign has staked out an improvement of the affordable care act as solidifying a lot of the issues that the trump administration has eroded in the last three years, even though they could not a manage to repeal the affordable care act. that was one of trump's promises, but they definitely have stabbed it with a thousand knives. the robust public option plan and lower administrative cost option for people to choose in the marketplace, and a lower age for medicare recipients to be medicare,gn onto moving days from 65 to 60. so that was the position in march. as you say, bernie sanders had a medicare for all, and kamala harris was longer tr

we want to make sure that families are connected to school and work and there is no homework gap medicaid benefits to those in need are available and to keep emts on the job during the middle of 'tthe pandemic. i will tell you this when we go home we make sure we are communicating with people across the state. in nevada we had beautifully diverse communities with urban and rural areas i talked to the leaders of all counties , city governments whether republican or democrat are independent there's one thing in common that they want us to come together to find a solution to help and support them during this time when there is no revenue coming in because the economy has been ground to a halt as we address the health crisis please continue to fight for us and make sure the money is not only there and available to make sure it is flexible to make sure we have the opportunity that the money goes directly to local governments. so i have found the many we do give from the cares act puts it to good use because local state governments and tribal governments know what the community needs so they wa

it's like medicaid funding cuts.ain this to them for years, they think when they cut medicaid they're going to be hurting poor, black people in inner cities, it's a racist thing to think, it's cold hearted, but it's also stupid. they're actually hurting rural hospitals as well. they're hurting senior citizens in nursing homes and nursing home care is getting gutted. rural hospitals can't face the coronavirus the way they should be able to face the coronavirus because of years of cuts from republicans in medicaid. this stuff is not hard to figure out. yet republicans keep going after their own supporters like donald trump now is with the post office. and like they're doing with absentee voting and mail-in voting. as we've talked about it, claire, we republicans figured out how to do that a long time ago. democrats are the ones that aren't as good in that area. they get people to show up in person, but don't try telling donald trump and the republicans that, because they keep shooting themselves politically in the foot

cosponsor the medicaid for all bill. [applause] [cheers and applause] just theuse it is right thing to do. it is just the right thing to do. um, somebody should -- you are right. you are right. is part of our ongoing fight to make very be a, one, this should not partisan issue. it should be a nonpartisan issue. babies are born not democrat or republican. one in two california babies. again, understanding, health care should be a right, not a privilege. it is also about being smart. it is also about being smart. it is so much better that people have meaningful access to affordable health care at every stage of life, from birth on, because the alternative is that we have taxpayers otherwise who are paying huge amounts of money for them to get health care in the emergency room. i mean, so it is not only what is morally or ethically right, it also makes sense from a physical standpoint, or if you want to talk about it as a return on investment for taxpayers, so thank you for your work. steve: that from three years ago, but a

that 12 million americans have additionally needed to rely on medicaid as a result of covid-19. the states are unable to act because their budgets have been so badly hurt. there is a risk factor that they will in fact even cut back benefits because they don't have the funds to maintain the current benefits before covid-19, let alone the additional number of people that have been thrown into the need for medicaid. we need to take steps and improve the fmap by the federal government. telehealth has proven to be a very effective tool in dealing with covid-19. we know that people cannot travel, cannot go to offices as easily as they could, and we've seen a natural desire to do as much telehealth as possible. and we passed legislation to expand the types of services and geography that can use telehealth services. it's very important for rural america, very important for the underserved community, very important for the transportation challenged community. we need to make those provisions permanent. i've introduced two pieces of legislation with my colleagues, the reach act with senat

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