Warnock pushes Medicaid expansion as equity issue amid Dem healthcare battle
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) implored his colleagues to include legislation expanding Medicaid as his party works quickly to craft its sweeping social benefit and climate spending plan, branding the measure as a means to advance equity in the nation's healthcare system.
"In my home state of Georgia, there are 275,000 Georgians in the coverage gap - this is an equity issue - 47 percent of whom are Black, 9 percent of are Latino, and 63 percent are working families," Warnock said in remarks before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday.
"We need to remember the faces of those who are affected by the policies we choose to create and not create," he said. "The human costs of the policy work we do here in the Senate. There are real consequences for real people when we fail to do what we were sent here to do."
His comments come as Democrats have been hard at work trying to finish a massive spending package that they seek to use to unlock funding for paid family leave, universal pre-kindergarten, climate effort, expansions to Medicare and Medicaid, as well as affordable housing.
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