We were able to step up and backfill that. But I can't do this forever. These are big pieces of change right now. As I think I alluded to. The big beautiful bill...will take a billion dollars out of Medicaid. a billion dollars out of our Medicaid budget. That's 20% of our overall federal funding. That would be tens of thousands of people losing their health insurance. (18:23–18:31)
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