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Mike Johnson: “If you add work requirements into Medicaid it makes sense to…”

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

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And if you make sure that people who are able bodied workers, you know, men under the age of 40 for example, who have rolled onto Medicaid and gotten onto the expansion and need to be working, If you add work requirements into Medicaid it makes sense to people. It's common sense. Little things like that can make a big difference not only in the budgeting process but in the morale of the people. You know, work is good for you. (12:01–12:05)

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