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Mark Pocan: “It's 700 billion from Medicaid and 300 billion from the ACA…”

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

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Mark Pocan Discusses Impact of Proposed Health Care and Social Program Cuts in Wisconsin Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 01:36

But they had such a hard time getting certified and it was so confusing that they never wound up who are getting Medicaid. And yet here we are doing this. It's 700 billion from Medicaid and 300 billion from the ACA exchanges. So remember we were saying 880 billion. They said they're not cutting Medicaid. We said you had to because the entire budget of that committee outside of Medicaid and Medicare is 581 billion. (01:36–01:43)

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Asserts that $700 billion is cut from Medicaid and $300 billion from ACA exchanges.

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