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Gwen Moore: “You want to cut Medicaid because you want to force people to…”

Featuring: Gwen Moore, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 4

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore Discusses the Worker Relief and Credit Reform Act at the Right to Care Conference

Published | Video Starts at 08:31

You know, I'm a grand, I'm a mother, a grandmother and a great grandmother. And so caretaking is what I have done every single day of my adult life. What about the people that, you know, You want to cut Medicaid because you want to force people to work where they're already working. That's right. They're caring for people who otherwise the federal government and state would have to pay oh so much more, put them in nursing homes and other settings. (08:31–08:38)

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Asserts that there are proposals to cut Medicaid to force people to work, despite them already working.

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