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$23,000. that s not that much, sir. for a year, yeah. i asked pastor hill about medicaid because it is health insurance for those that can t afford to buy it, low income americans with families with children and disabled. texas could choose to expand medicaid so pastor hill and many others would qualify. state s could make medicaid available to more people and the federal government covers 90% of the cost. expanding medicaid actually saves states money in the long run. but texas lawmakers don t want to pay for more government insurance even if they only have to pick up 10% of the tab. remember dr. hernandez? he broke it down for me. do you know how many people would have been insured under expanded medicaid in texas? if we turned medicaid on today, a million people would immediately have it. and strangely enough more and more republican states are ....
Here in utah, voters for crystal clear. but state representatives said nope and enacted their own more limited law that would expand medicaid to about 60,000 fewer people. what do they have to say about what they did? norm is a health economist and a republican state rep, and he opposed full medicaid expansion. why would you be against medicaid expansion in utah? that moves too many people out of the market based system into a government system. let me tell you a little bit about that government program. we have provider shortages. we also have problems with funding. every year we re up here saying do we have enough money to pay for that? sometimes we have to cut benefits. your citizens passed proposition three, 53% or more of your district specifically. yes. yet you don t support that. ....
When voters went on the offense. in utah and two other red states, citizens collected enough signatures to put medicaid expansion on their ballots. and guess what? it passed in all three. in utah, that means about 150,000 people would newly qualify for medicaid. i m at the state capital to meet with the utah health policy project, a key organizer who has worked for years to make expansion happen here. this is i would argue the reddest state in the country if you look at all the elected positions and the makeup of the people, and they just voted on a tax increase to help poor people, government health care. that is dangerous if you are a republican. the people s proposition would be in effect now if it weren t for what the republican legislature did next. we passed a ballot initiative to expand medicaid fully, cleanly, pay for it. people s will, how can you argue ....
sat and filled them out will. medicaid saved us when my dad was out of work. please help us by expanding medicaid. that doesn t pull on your heart strings a little bit. i write this as a registered republican. this act by legislatures is the very reason all of you need to be voted out. this is the people s will and you should not be able to change it. was the ballot measure sort of a revolt from utah against their own legislatures basically tired of them not acting on medicaid expansion? i d say it was a reaction. yeah. i mean, it was done not because they wanted to like spite the legislature. it was done because utah wants this. utah needs this. i mean, people are dying because we don t have this. do you think that health care should be a right in america? i think people hear in that phrase what they want to. we believe in access and like ....
And millions of new yorkers every year have somebody in the household who goes without needed care because they can t afford it. a system that works like that is broken. what we re trying to do is we re trying to completely erase that, start fresh instead of having just smaller pools of people that are insured, we have 20 million people sharing costs actually lowers costs. but socialism. it s a scarey word, social security, medicare, medicaid, all of these things were denounced as socialism. the government would not be running the health care. you would pick your health care providers. what the new york health program would do is pay the bill. i mean, in the conversation that you all are having here in new york, it is like a microcosm of the conversation we re having nationally. if it can happen here in new york, can it happen anywhere? it certainly can. you know, most social progress legislatively in this country starts at the state level and eventually goes national. ....