Rep. Hakeem Jefferies: Health care system is broken
December 18, 2025 • 3m 5s
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Anchor)
00:00.310
this
house
minority
leader
keith
jeffries
good
morning
to
you
you
heard
the
president
last
night
he
says
the
democrats
are
in
the
pockets
of
the
insurance
companies
and
that
the
price
of
your
health
care
is
actually
to
go
down
under
his
plan
what
say
you
Hakeem Jeffries (House Minority Leader)
00:16.700
well
good
morning
great
to
be
with
you
the
republican
health
care
crisis
is
devastating
the
american
people
and
donald
trump
has
zero
credibility
on
the
issue
of
health
care
this
is
the
party
that
has
enacted
the
largest
cut
to
medicaid
in
american
history
in
the
same
bill
where
Hakeem Jeffries (House Minority Leader)
00:32.220
they
enacted
massive
tax
breaks
for
their
billionaire
donors
because
of
republican
policies
and
the
one
big
ugly
bill
we
know
that
hospitals
nursing
homes
and
community
based
health
centers
are
closing
all
across
the
country
including
in
rural
america
republicans
have
launched
Hakeem Jeffries (House Minority Leader)
00:47.590
an
all
out
assault
on
the
centers
for
disease
control
the
national
institute
of
health
of
the
food
and
drug
administration
on
vaccine
availability
for
children
and
now
republicans
are
refusing
to
extend
the
affordable
care
act
tax
credits
which
means
that
tens
of
millions
of
Hakeem Jeffries (House Minority Leader)
01:02.350
americans
working
class
americans
are
about
to
experience
dramatically
increased
health
insurance
premiums
we
are
working
hard
to
decisively
confront
this
republican
healthcare
crisis
and
fix
our
broken
health
care
system
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Anchor)
01:16.350
leader
but
let
me
ask
you
this
and
i
recognize
the
the
complications
of
of
and
cost
to
the
american
public
there
is
a
question
and
maybe
you'd
say
it's
a
longer
term
question
that
has
to
be
dealt
with
later
but
the
true
question
ultimately
underneath
all
of
this
is
how
we're
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Anchor)
01:31.830
going
to
actually
lower
the
costs
of
healthcare
in
america
and
when
i
say
lower
the
cost
not
just
lower
the
cost
for
individuals
meaning
in
the
moment
subsidized
it
but
how
we
actually
change
the
market
dynamic
at
play
and
whether
what
you
have
proposed
even
tries
to
address
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Anchor)
01:50.670
that
at
all
or
frankly
exacerbates
it
Hakeem Jeffries (House Minority Leader)
01:54.860
what
we've
proposed
at
the
moment
relates
to
the
fact
that
the
affordable
care
act
and
tax
credits
are
going
to
expire
on
december
thirty
first
and
no
one
disputes
that
if
that
happens
tens
of
millions
of
americans
are
going
to
experience
skyrocketing
health
insurance
premiums
Hakeem Jeffries (House Minority Leader)
02:11.940
in
some
cases
increasing
by
a
thousand
or
two
thousand
dollars
per
month
and
ninety
percent
of
the
people
who
rely
on
the
affordable
care
act
tax
credits
make
around
sixty
three
thousand
dollars
per
year
these
are
working
class
americans
everyday
americans
and
middle
class
Hakeem Jeffries (House Minority Leader)
02:26.910
americans
and
so
we've
got
to
make
sure
that
we
don't
allow
these
tax
credits
to
expire
at
the
same
time
you
raise
a
very
good
point
andrew
that
the
healthcare
system
is
broken
and
we
need
to
fix
it
we
want
to
fix
it
in
a
comprehensive
way
in
a
bipartisan
way
but
that
actually
Hakeem Jeffries (House Minority Leader)
02:44.870
requires
republicans
deciding
to
abandon
their
my
way
or
the
highway
approach
to
everything
which
is
what
has
led
to
the
extremist
that
they're
jamming
down
the
throats
of
the
american
people
and
the
fact
that
everyday
americans
voters
are
rejecting
that
extremism
as
we
saw
in
Hakeem Jeffries (House Minority Leader)
03:02.550
the
off
year
elections
last
november
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