Texas Democratic Party Chair: This Billionaire Bootlicking Bill Is Going To Shut Down More than 300 Rural Hospitals Across Texas

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SCUDDER: "Well, this billionaire bootlicking bill is going to shut down more than 300 rural hospitals across the country. I’m from rural east Texas. I come from a family that would have to drive 45 minutes to an hour to get to a hospital. Most counties in the state of Texas don’t even have a hospital that could birth a baby. And so what are you supposed to do if you live somewhere in south Texas where you’re two, three hours away from a hospital and you have an emergency? Those hospitals are having a hard enough time staying open as it is, let alone with the government working against them. And why would the government work against them? Because they aren’t profitable. Well, guess what? The government’s job is not to turn a profit. The government’s job is to provide services to the people that live here. And they’re failing to do that. And they’re — they're taking all the money that would provide services to working class people like us, and they're handing it to the people at the top because their greed knows absolutely no bounds."