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Ron Johnson: “We're going to dump another 20 to 30 million people into…”

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

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Senator Johnson on MSNBC

Published | Video Starts at 04:55

I provided your producers with a graph that is a serious threat to our budget or to Medicare and Medicaid. Again, you've already got Medicaid providers that are dropping out of the system, that refuse to see patients. We're going to dump another 20 to 30 million people into Medicaid. and that's really what we're going to be turning our health care system into. As a Medicaid system, I don't think the American people are going to particularly like it. (04:55–05:00)

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Asserts that 20 to 30 million more people will be added to Medicaid.

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