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just this past week the Centers for
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Medicaid and Medicare services part of
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the federal government so the half
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million Americans had signed up for
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insurance under Obamacare during the
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last special enrollment period that's a
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huge spike for people newly signing up
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for health insurance under Obamacare and
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that's of course the result of millions
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of Americans losing their employer
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linked health and covered health
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coverage because of everybody getting
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laid off in furloughed because of the
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pandemic at the exact same time that
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we're seeing this massive demand for
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coverage under Obamacare the Trump
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administration and Republican governors
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all across the country have literally
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been petitioning the Supreme Court to
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kill the whole law right it's happening
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in tandem on the exact same day we
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learned about those half-million recent
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signups for Obamacare where people are
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trying to get health insurance that way
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because they can't get it through their
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employer anymore because look what's
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happened to employment in this country
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on that same day we got that statistic
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the Trump administration asked the
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Supreme Court to kill the Affordable
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Care Act altogether siding with 18
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republican-led states arguing that Obama
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care should be struck down in its
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entirety the brief filed by the Trump
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administration explicitly spells out
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that they really definitely specifically
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want to kill the part of Obamacare that
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says you have to be given health
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insurance coverage by a health insurance
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provider even if you have a pre-existing
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condition they explicitly spell out in
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the brief but they want people to no
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longer be guaranteed coverage if they've
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got pre-existing conditions then what
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the whole thing thrown out including
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specifically that but like dig into that
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a little bit right we want to really
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make sure that this thing is gonna rip
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away coverage from people who are
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already struggling with things like
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cancer or some other precondition right
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the news would be eyebrow-raising even
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in good times but right now we are
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living in the middle of a pandemic that
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has already claimed the lives of close
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to a hundred and thirty thousand
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Americans and how many Americans have
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been infected with this thing I mean
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people who got sick with coronavirus a
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lot of them faced the grim reality that
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they might be left with health problems
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from kovat that affect them for the rest
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of their lives karana virus infections
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are poised to become the
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preexisting condition right and if the
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Trump administration has its way
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pre-existing conditions will be used to
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deny you health insurance coverage this
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is a point that the Democratic nominee
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for president Vice President Joe Biden
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has been trying to hammer home if Donald
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Trump has his way those who have
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complications from Cova 19 could become
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the new pre-existing conditions some
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survivors will experience lasting health
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impacts like lung scarring and heart
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damage and if Donald Trump prevails in
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court insurers would be allowed once
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again to strip away coverage jack up
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premiums simply because of the battle
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they survived deep fighting coronavirus
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those survivors having struggle and when
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their fight of their lives would have
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their peace of mind stolen at that
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moment they needed at most they would
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live they would live their lives caught
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in a vise between Donald Trump's twin
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legacies his failure to protect the
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American people from the coronavirus and
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his heartless crusade to take health
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care protections away from American
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families this isn't just political
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competition between Joe Biden and Donald
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Trump I mean this is this is the reality
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that we're living through that is
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growing every day by now 50,000 new
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cases a day and here's the New York
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Times just late this afternoon hundreds
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of thousands of seriously ill
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coronavirus patients who survived and
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leave the hospital are facing a new and
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difficult challenge recovery many are
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struggling to overcome a range of
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troubling residual symptoms and some
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problems that may persist for months
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years or even the rest of their lives
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you think about the number of Americans
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who already have pre-existing conditions
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of some kind right Obamacare was the way
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that we made sure that Americans with
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pre-existing conditions of any kind
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could still get health insurance in this
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country if you think about the number of
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Americans who are ultimately going to
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get infected with kovat 19 and survive
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it
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it's just staggering right I mean so far
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more than two and a half million
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Americans are already confirmed covet 19
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infections according to the CDC's c2c
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directors recent testimony to Congress
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the real number of Americans who've been
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infected with this thing is probably
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more like 20 million Americans but those
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numbers are going up right now
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explosively we're going we've gone from
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20 25 30 35 40 45 now 50,000 cases a day
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in the blink of an eye if we do get to
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the point where we're up to a hundred
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thousand new infections a day like dr.
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Fauci suggested yesterday to Congress
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that means we'll have another million
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Americans infected every 10 days and
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that means potentially we're talking
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about tens of millions of Americans who
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won't be able to get health insurance
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not now not ever because the Trump
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administration and Republican governors
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right now in the middle of this thing
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are trying to take away the law that
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says you have to get health insurance
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coverage regardless of your pre-existing
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conditions I mean Americans have tons of
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those already but literally tens of
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millions of us may have no pre-existing
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conditions thanks to the other
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catastrophic almost existential failure
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of this administration which is an
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absolutely out of control explosively
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growing coronavirus pandemic that is
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infecting 50 thousand of us a day now
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good planning
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you guys good planning I mean even
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Oklahoma voters are giving you the
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appropriate one finger salute on this
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one
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