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Cliff Bentz: “About 1.5 million people across the United States are on…”

Featuring: Cliff Bentz, Republican | U.S. House Oregon, 2nd Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 11:13

The Medicaid portion of the bill is designed to address those who are on Medicaid that the law does not allow to be on Medicaid. So right now, if you look at enrollment, you would find that About 1.5 million people across the United States are on Medicaid that are not legally supposed to be on Medicaid. Medicare. And that's because they're not citizens or they're for some other reason when it comes to citizenship, not eligible. Okay? The law says they're not supposed to be on, so they should be taken off. (11:13–11:23)

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Asserts that 1.5 million people are on Medicaid without legal eligibility.

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