Senator Chuck Schumer

Many of them opposed Medicare and Medicaid when they started in the 60s.

Before the 1960s, we didn't have much health care in America.

You were on your own.

Every Western country had it.

And there was an outcry, and under Lyndon Johnson, we've had Medicare and Medicaid, and we've advanced it and made it better and better and better, making it easier for people to afford their health care.

But a large group of Republicans have never wanted to do it.

And it's these MAGA right-wingers.

And they just hate having the government involved in helping people.

But the average person without health insurance, without Medicare, without Medicaid,

Can't afford it, period.

It's gotten, as you know, more expensive now because, and look, it's not a perfect system at all.

I mean, it's far from a perfect system.

It's far from a perfect, but people are living longer and healthier because they have the resources to get the kind of medical care that you and millions of other doctors and healthcare professionals give them.

So here's the horrible thing.

They would rather not negotiate with us and shut down the government than provide this health care.

It's almost religion to some of them.

And it's horrible.

But.

They're against the American people.

Here's an interesting little poll statistic.