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Appearing for the first time on the Midas Touch Network, Senator Elizabeth Warren. Welcome, Senator.
Thank you, Ben. I'm just delighted to be here with you.
All right, let's get into it. So the House Republicans this week passed their budget blueprint, tax cuts for the rich, cuts to Medicaid, $19 trillion added to the deficit at least, I think, over 10 years. How much harm is this going to cause the American people?
More than you can measure. Think of it this way. The bumper sticker for this budget proposal is billionaires win, everybody else loses. And when I say everybody else loses, I really do mean everybody. So big hunk of these cuts are for the program called Medicaid. And that's like in Massachusetts, my home state, two out of every three people in a nursing home is there funded by Medicaid.
So what exactly is the Donald Trump Republican plan here? That those old folks who don't have anything else, they don't have like some retirement plan or big fancy checking account to draw on. Are they just going to set them out on the corner to be picked up with the trash? Those are the kind of cuts we're talking about. Medicaid also helps fund community health centers all across this country.
If you're not going to a community health center, you really ought to try one out. They do everything from little tiny babies to seniors. They do all kinds of care, preventive care, really the soup to nuts of taking care of people. And they give that high quality care. at the lowest possible cost. Cuts to Medicaid means that they could lose as much as half their budget.
And understand this, they even lose 2% of their budget. They work so efficiently using every dollar to its maximum benefit. That really means they got to stop offering services. So what? They cut out care for little babies. They cut out emergency care. They cut out preventive care. None of that is good. You want to force people to go to the hospitals.
You want to force people to give up the care they need. In the long run, that just costs us more money and a whole lot more misery.
What do you say to people, though, in red states or red areas that go, but this is Senator Warren saying that she's a liberal. She's saying all of these things. What's your response?
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