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Mark Pocan: “I could see people saying that they're not cutting Medicaid…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Podcast Discussion with Mark Pocan and Natasha on Medicaid Cuts and Health Policy

Published | Video Starts at 19:14

And so really the idea of kind of implementing these funding caps would, you know, really stress state budgets and you know, have some pretty, pretty harmful impacts on state residents. So I could see people saying that they're not cutting Medicaid by doing that, but they are if the amount is less than was previously given. Correct? Exactly. Yes. Yeah. And then so I met with some state legislators yesterday and you know, they were one of this is one of their concern areas because we … (19:14–19:23)

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Asserts that capping Medicaid spending effectively cuts Medicaid if the capped amount is less than previous funding.

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