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Mike Johnson: “If you eliminate fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid, you've…”

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

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And so we do right to go into those programs and find that and show the people what's happened and make sure it doesn't happen again. And if you do, If you eliminate fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid, you've got a huge amount of money that you can spend on real priorities for the country. 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 … (11:45–11:52)

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Asserts that eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid would free up significant funds for other priorities.

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