Mike Johnson: “About 1.2 are people that were receiving Medicaid from…”

“That's about 1.7 million people you're talking about or about 4.7 million people in fact. But also we've got the illegal aliens out of Medicaid. That's 1.4 million people and About 1.2 are people that were receiving Medicaid from multiple states at the same time. Gaming the system, cheating the system. We had to do These reforms to shore up the programs, to strengthen them for the people that need it most.” (04:11–04:16)

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