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Joe Zepecki: “That's preposterous because that's not how Medicaid works.”

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Manufactured Crisis: How Trump and Republicans Broke Wisconsin's Health Care

Published | Video Starts at 15:26

I, I, I, I'm trying not to jump to Tony Weed, for example, must be a, or something because he thinks that there's healthy 26, 27 year olds sitting in their mom's basement getting checks from Medicaid. That's preposterous because that's not how Medicaid works. So it's clearly that he doesn't understand it, which means he's being piped the same propaganda that has misled millions of Americans and now it is a cycle of self destruction. (15:26–15:30)

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Asserts that Medicaid does not provide checks to healthy young adults living at home.

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