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Ron Johnson: “Inflated, [Medicaid spending in 2014] would be $431 billion.”

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Ron Johnson Asks Dr. Oz ‘What Is Your Evaluation Of The Biggest Problem We Have In Medicine Today’

Published | Video Starts at 01:49

Let me just give you some numbers on Medicaid. Obama In 2014, the first year of Obamacare, total Medicaid spending was $301 billion. And 24 billion of that was the new Obamacare. Inflated, [Medicaid spending in 2014] would be $431 billion. This year we're spending about 600 billion. The last good year we have for spending is 2023 where they break out. And that's a problem too. You can't get information. (01:49–01:53)

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Asserts that 2014 Medicaid spending, adjusted for inflation, would be $431 billion.

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