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Mike Crapo: “Medicaid spending doubled between 2019 and 2025.”

Featuring: Mike Crapo, Republican | U.S. Senate Idaho

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Crapo: Republicans are Giving Americans Control Over Their Health Care

Published | Video Starts at 00:45

Although much work remains, we have made significant progress. For too long, Medicaid's financing and programmatic oversight was on autopilot. Coupled with pandemic related increases and costly regulations under the previous administration, Medicaid spending doubled between 2019 and 2025. The Working Families tax cuts took significant steps to realign our health care system, strengthening access for those in need, putting patients back in charge of their care, and providing overdue reforms to curb waste, fraud and abuse. (00:45–00:57)

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Asserts that Medicaid spending increased significantly over a six-year period.

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