What we did in the bill, and the CBO just verified this three weeks ago, the Congressional Budget Office, the non partisan arbiters of everything up here, they said that those provisions have helped to reduce premiums. Why? Because We got ineligible recipients off of Medicaid, illegal aliens and able bodied young men who are riding the wagon who are not eligible to be there. Medicaid is intended for specific populations of U.S. citizens, I.e. young, pregnant women who are down on their luck, the disabled and the elderly. Those resources are being drained from those folks. (01:57–02:05)
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Asserts that ineligible recipients, including illegal aliens, were removed from Medicaid.
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