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Mark Spreitzer: “By failing to expand Medicaid, not just postpartum but…”

Featuring: Mark Spreitzer, Democratic | Wisconsin State Senate, District 15

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2025-2027 State Budget Remarks

Published | Video Starts at 05:08

That's wonderful. It cuts sales taxes. That's wonderful. But it's going to drive up property taxes, the least popular form of tax that we all hear complaints about. Why? And By failing to expand Medicaid, not just postpartum but fully, we are once again leaving 1.3 billion in federal dollars on the table. perhaps now, permanently. If Congress passes this big bad bill and blocks us from getting that sweetener in the future, and rest assured, when we are in the majority, we will expand Medicaid. (05:08–05:18)

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Asserts that not expanding Medicaid results in losing $1.3 billion in federal funding.

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