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Mike Johnson: “A provision that prohibits Medicaid from paying more for…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Gives Press Conference Remarks on Day 2 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 08:43

We eliminated that in the big beautiful bill. Their repeal, their counteroffer is to repeal and reverse that. That would cost $34 billion of U.S. taxpayer funds. Number two, A provision that prohibits Medicaid from paying more for emergency care provided to illegal aliens than it does for American patients who are disabled, elderly or children. They want we eliminated that in their counter proposal that they have filed that you can read yourself. They want to repeal that. That would cost taxpayers $28 billion. Here's another one. Number three, they've counter proposed a provision that ends the Obamacare funding for non citizens. The cost of that repeal would be $91 billion to all of you taxpayers. (08:43–09:04)

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Asserts that repealing a provision on Medicaid emergency care payments would cost $28 billion.

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