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Mark Pocan: “So that definitely is a cut to Medicaid if they do that.”

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 24:24

And so this was done, you know, in an attempt to assuage oftentimes Republican lawmakers who were concerned about, you know, the state picking up the cost for millions of additional Medicaid enrollees. So that definitely is a cut to Medicaid if they do that. Right. There's around that. Yeah, that is an all, all out assault on Medicaid and really targeting particularly these expansion enrollees, like I said, those 20 million Americans who became newly eligible for coverage. (24:24–24:29)

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Asserts that reducing the federal matching rate would result in cuts to Medicaid.

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