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PBS News Hour - Segments

During flurry of media appearances, Harris proposes Medicare coverage for in-home care

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

With Election Day only 28 days away, former President Trump will campaign in Pennsylvania, Colorado and Nevada by week's end. Vice President Harris is also barnstorming, not in battleground states, but in a media blitz on radio, podcasts and television. Lisa Desjardins reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Election Day is now only 28 days away.

0:04.0

Former President Donald Trump will campaign in Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Nevada by week's end.

0:09.0

Vice President Kamala Harris is also barnstorming not in battleground states necessarily but in a

0:14.9

media blitz on radio podcasts and on television. Lisa Desjardan has our report.

0:22.0

Vice President Kamala Harris campaigning this week in a flurry of media appearances

0:27.0

today joined the hosts of The View, a friendly interview,

0:30.0

though not toward her opponent,

0:32.0

former President Donald Trump.

0:33.2

Is a convicted felon, okay? A big-time loser.

0:37.3

I think people are exhausted.

0:38.8

Yeah. And they're, they're exhausted with the lies.

0:43.2

The daytime talk show, part of a purposeful outreach by Harris

0:46.7

to specific audiences, including women and families.

0:50.2

As part of that, today she unveiled a new proposal.

0:53.2

So what I am proposing is that basically what we will do is allow Medicare to cover

1:00.0

in-home health care.

1:02.0

The idea would pay for in-home AIDS to help some on Medicare

1:06.2

who need help with basic functions and whose families struggle to meet those needs.

1:11.1

Medicare would pay for it all at lower incomes and with a cost share at

1:15.5

higher ones. Some details are still coming but Tricia Newman with independent health

1:20.0

organization KFF says this is a massive unmet need.

1:24.8

You kind of know by talking to your friends and family members and colleagues

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