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Ari Melber Breaks Down in Tears While Talking Medicaid Cuts With Family Impacted by Disability Viral
Melber did O'Donnell's show on Friday, June 24, 2017
Published on Jun 24, 2017
During tonight’s broadcast of MSNBC’s The Last Word, guest host Ari Melber spoke to Mike Phillips and his mother, Karen Clay. Phillips lives with spinal muscular atrophy and Clay is his full-time caregiver. Melber spoke with the two because Phillips stands to lose Medicaid benefits if the proposed Senate health care bill is passed.
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When I saw what happened that night it broke my heart, literally, I also have a pre-exsiting condition, and the "republicans " have made life and that word "life" into a meaningless word and empathy worthless, that is why we are where we are today. Liberals get it, we have gotten it ever sine Medicare and Medicaid was passed under our watch, we have EMPATHY, and I wear the badge and that word with honor.
