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Rural Florida's healthcare pleas meet Nixon's Medicare for All pitch

More Perfect Union visits Putnam County, where patients describe unaffordable care and Angie Nixon takes her healthcare proposal to conservative voters.

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We Spoke To Trump Voters In Rural Florida. They’re Begging For Help.

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2:27Michael Depew describes receiving a cancer diagnosis while working part-time without health insurance.
5:55Dr. Gurnoor Singh displays insurance-network rejection letters while explaining barriers to providing rural care.
8:20Palatka town hall attendees recount healthcare denials, treatment costs and difficulties affecting their families.
9:36Nixon argues Medicare for All would remove private insurance middlemen and reduce national healthcare costs.
11:05Chris Riggs offers a different explanation, blaming government regulation and intervention for healthcare system problems.
14:27An end card says Depew's employer insurance begins in November; treatment financing remains unresolved.

"We shouldn't have to fight to just stay alive," Michael Depew says. Working part-time at Walmart when he received a cancer diagnosis, he had no health insurance. His account gives More Perfect Union's visit to rural Florida an urgency that extends beyond the election campaign accompanying it.

Reporter Natasha Del Toro travels to Putnam County, where Donald Trump won nearly three-quarters of the vote in 2024. The report follows patients struggling to pay for treatment, a physician trying to join insurance networks and a Democratic candidate asking conservative residents to consider Medicare for All. It has drawn roughly 830,000 views since yesterday.

Former hairdresser Amie Johns describes pain that makes sitting or standing difficult, along with the prospect of bankruptcy. At Community Roots Health, Dr. Gurnoor Singh displays rejection letters from insurance networks. "We're at the mercy of insurance companies," he says. Together, those accounts show barriers on both sides of the examination-room door: obtaining care and being able to provide it.

At a Palatka town hall, Democratic US Senate candidate Angie Nixon hears residents describe denials and costs affecting their families. Her argument is that replacing private insurance middlemen with Medicare for All would reduce national healthcare spending. The report contrasts that proposal with Republican Senator Ashley Moody's opposition to expanding federal healthcare programs.

Not everyone shares Nixon's diagnosis of the problem. Local resident Chris Riggs blames government regulation and intervention for the system's flaws. Depew, meanwhile, says he would support guaranteed universal coverage regardless of party affiliation. That is a statement about a policy, not a promise to change his vote.

The report closes without a financial resolution for him: an end card says his Walmart health insurance will not begin until November, leaving the financing of his treatment unsettled.

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