Senator Chuck Schumer

And it's common sense when you have two sides that each need something, you sit down and talk about it.

The number one reason we are not doing this, we are not, the number one reason we feel so strongly about healthcare is because it's decimating.

And let me give you some details.

So they slashed Medicaid by a trillion dollars.

What does that mean?

First, it means rural hospitals all across the country, mainly in Republican states and districts are going to close.

Some have closed already because so many of these hospitals depend on Medicaid.

For many counties, like including in some of my counties in upstate New York, they're the only hospital.

and they're the largest employer.

Second, this applies to lots of your audience who I know tend to be the young folks.

The parents who were in nursing homes are gonna get kicked out.

I was at Silver Lake Nursing Home on Staten Island where I know your dad lives.

The owner told me if these cuts go through, all 300 patients, many of whom are Staten Islanders, are gonna have to leave because I have to close.

I'm 70, 80% Medicaid because Medicaid pays for the people in the nursing homes.

Where are they going to go?

A lot of the kids here don't have an extra room to put them in.

And even if they did, as you know, as a doctor, they can't provide the kind of health care they need.

Even more devastating is how the premiums will rise.

In other words, we want to just renew the tax credits that have existed for a while on your ACA, your Affordable Care Act, or they used to call it Obamacare.

If they are not renewed, and we asked the Republicans three times, we put votes on the floor, and three times they voted no, unfortunately.