At a Kansas Senate debate, Mr. Hamilton, facing his opponent Roger Marshall, describes a working woman in Hutchinson whose premium rose to $2,700 a month after the subsidies went away, forcing her to choose between her house and her insurance. He says more than 36,000 Kansans have lost health insurance, closer to 50,000 counting Medicaid losses, and that Marshall, a doctor, voted to take those benefits away.
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- Who
- Mr. Hamilton
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- other - Kansas US Senate debate, Debate Night in Kansas (Nexstar/Fox 4 Kansas Ci
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- 47 seconds, unedited within the cut
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This is critical. So I was in Hutchinson, Kansas. A woman comes to me and she says, I'm one of those people who lost my health insurance. She said, after the subsidies went away, she's a working person. She's not on welfare. $2 ,700 a month became her health insurance premium. She said, I had to decide between my house or my health insurance. This is just not right. We have to solve health insurance. We've got to solve for this. But right now, we've got an interim period of time where we've got to be able to make sure people can afford to buy health insurance. It's more than 36 ,000 people have lost health insurance. the state of Kansas we think today, closer to 50 ,000 people when you take the Medicaid, the folks who lost as a result of Medicaid. And so looking at that and saying that's like one in 60 people in the state of Kansas who had health insurance a year and a half ago, don't have it today, when my opponent, Roger Marshall, a doctor voted to take away those health benefits from people, that's not okay. We have got to do better than that.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.