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Ron Johnson: “We try and encourage working age, single, able bodied…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Ron Johnson's Wisconsin Town Hall: Addressing Federal Spending, Medicaid, and Immigration Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 41:22

Why are you cutting Medicaid? We're literally not. We're trying to reduce the growth in Medicaid. We're trying to protect Medicaid for the vulnerable. So We try and encourage working age, single, able bodied, childless adults to go in the workplace and get their insurance there. And my final point will be when it comes to health care as well as education, if you think about those are two areas of our economy we are habitually dissatisfied with. (41:22–41:31)

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Asserts that there is an effort to encourage certain adults to obtain insurance through employment.

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