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POLITICO States often reduce Medicaid benefits during economic downturns. Doing that now could prolong the pandemic. A nurse puts on protective glasses as she gets ready to go into one of the triage rooms to care for a Covid-19 positive patient in the emergency department at Sutter Roseville Medical Center in Roseville, Calif., on Dec. 22, 2020. | Renee C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee via AP, Pool) By NISARG PATEL, DANIEL LIEBMAN and SMITHA GANESHAN 02/08/2021 04:30 AM EST Link Copied Daniel Liebman is a resident physician at Harvard Medical School. Smitha Ganeshan is a resident physician at the University of California, San Francisco. Of all the tools the government has to combat Covid-19, Medicaid is arguably one of the most important. Medicaid provides health insurance for millions of Americans in low-paid service jobs, the essential workers who are among those most vulnerable to contracting and spreading the virus. Medicaid also pays the bills for mi ....
Prevent teen-age pregnancy, cutting nutritional assistance to mothers and children, cutting medicaid, which we know helps babies and single mothers. and so it really will allow democrats i think to start to make that argument about morals and what really is pro-life and what really is supportive of mothers and children. i think kevin mccarthy speaks for a lot of pro-lifers in this country. you can see the frustration written all over his face as he answered that question, which is that they have a principled belief that abortion generally speaking is wrong and that a viable baby should not be terminated. and so when they hear this most extreme example of how abortion can be used, think again specifically about what they re saying, an uncle, a father rapes you, you must deliver the baby, a stranger attacks you, you must deliver the baby. and you re 12. what could be more barbaric? ....
And presidential voter types will only show up every four years are not expected to turn out, but we can take this country back if we show up and we absolutely have to show up. last point here, i thought you would appreciate this data poirchlt, you talked about medicare, social security, medicaid. this is from one of our own producers in texas 32. talking to people in suburban early voting spot. gop woman said she has a sign for pete sessions and voted straight r ticket so she voted for the democratic challenger which is music to your ears i think. yeah, that s because it s true. we are out there telling the truth about what they want to do. this is not a rhetorical flourish. this is what mitch mcconnell promises and this is what paul ryan has been dreaming about. sitting around kegs is the phrase particularly, cutting medicaid. senator brian schatz, thank you ....
I understand it s a mid term. i understand that young people and presidential voter types will only show up every four years are not expected to turn out, but we can take this country back if we show up and we absolutely have to show up. last point here, i thought you would appreciate this datapoint, you talked about medicare, social security, medicaid. this is from one of our own producers in texas 32. talking to people in suburban early voting spot. gop woman said she has a sign for pete sessions and voted straight r ticket so she voted for the democratic challenger which is music to your ears i think. yeah, that s because it s true. we are out there telling the truth about what they want to do. this is not a rhetorical flourish. this is what mitch mcconnell promises and this is what paul ryan has been dreaming about. sitting around kegs is the phrase particularly, cutting medicaid. senator brian schatz, thank you for joining me. thank you. i want to bring in three panelist ....
He said little adam schiff, and talking about the ranking member of the house intelligence committee. he is one of the biggest liars and leakers in washington right up there with comey, warner, brennan and clapper. adam leaves closed committee meetings to leak confidential information. must be stopped. this is the president of the united states. i mean, this is just an embarrassment. it is an embarrassment on the international stage. and i think he is showing exactly what the purpose of the memo is. so now i ll tell you, the one thing that confuses me is i don t understand why the republican leadership would put their reputations on the line to defend him in this manner. we all understand what the president is doing. but why would they back this up? and have they decided that their policy agenda of on privatizing social security, having medicare be vouchers, cutting medicaid, ....