As you know, we strengthened the Medicaid program. We started there because it was the lowest hanging fruit. Why? Because the fraud is so glaring. And we cut out, we eliminated the fraud. We got ineligible recipients off of Medicaid. We preserved it for the people who rely upon it and need it the most. Young, pregnant women, the elderly, disabled, for example. We got able bodied young men without dependents off the program. And what we did was we strengthened it. (38:42–38:49)
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