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Diana DeGette: “92% of Medicaid recipients are working in school, disabled…”

Featuring: Diana DeGette, Democratic | U.S. House, Colorado, District 1

Diana DeGette Criticizes Republican Health Care Bill and Medicaid Cuts

Published May 13, 2025 | Video Starts at 04:23

I'd like. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to put a study from the Kaiser Family foundation into the record, which shows that 92% of Medicaid recipients are working in school, disabled are caregivers or seniors. and that for those very few people that you could find, most of them are already working. You're sure as heck not going to save $715 billion by throwing these people off of their Medicaid. (04:23–04:31)

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Asserts that 92% of Medicaid recipients are working, in school, disabled, caregivers, or seniors.

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