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Mike Johnson: “Medicaid, for example, is broken. Medicaid doesn't work…”

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

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Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6

Published | Video Starts at 23:33

We're so proud of that because it has so many amazing things for all the American people. A marquee piece of legislation. But among the most important were the reforms that we did to health care. Why? Because Medicaid, for example, is broken. Medicaid doesn't work well. It's underfunded and it was full of fraud, waste and abuse. And we took our opportunity to fix that and we did. So what did we do? We went into Medicaid and we said we got to stop the waste and abuse. (23:33–23:42)

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Asserts that Medicaid is broken, underfunded, and plagued by fraud, waste, and abuse.

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