Talk about Medicaid for a second. And you talked about rural areas. So look, I'm a doctor, practiced in Wyoming rural and frontier medicine. In this bill, there's $50 billion set aside for rural hospitals to make sure that they can stay no longer in jeopardy, but give them the security that they need. Medicaid has become a magnet for waste, for fraud, for abuse and even corruption. And during the votes on this bill, the Democrats said, nope, keep sending Medicaid to illegal immigrants or 1.2 million illegal immigrants on Medicaid right now. (00:41–00:55)
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