expanding medicaid and trying to bring down costs for everybody. >> i had a brother who struggled with alcoholism and ptsd for decades. i lost him in march, two weeks after i announced for this. it was devastating. and hard to go on. but there are others like him. and i intend to make sure that they have more chances than he had. >> in virginia we're paying medicaid taxes that go out of state. we are turning away $6 million a day. we need this. we need it badly. >> for years republicans in virginia had blocked that state from taking up part of obamacare, part of the affordable care act, that would have provided health insurance to more than 400,000 people in that state, people who otherwise didn't have insurance.