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James Comer Jr.: “86% of the Somali population is on Medicaid in Minnesota.”

Featuring: James Comer Jr., Republican | U.S. House Kentucky, 1st Congressional District

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Minnesota Is 'GROUND ZERO' for government fraud, says Rep James Comer

Published | Video Starts at 02:24

We want to get serious about identifying waste, fraud and abuse, eliminating it and holding people accountable who are committing that fraud. Now let me say something about Minnesota. 86% of the Somali population is on Medicaid in Minnesota. That's free health care. Everybody that's complaining about their free health care, I mean, about their excessive health care premiums, when so many people get it for free, somebody has to pay for that free health care. (02:24–02:32)

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Asserts that 86% of the Somali population in Minnesota is enrolled in Medicaid.

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