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Sara Rodriguez: “If we would have passed [Medicaid expansion] just even last…”

Featuring: Sara Rodriguez, Democratic | Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 22:53

With the big ugly bill that passed, it is going to be more difficult for Wisconsin to pass this. It's going to be more expensive. If we would have passed [Medicaid expansion] just even last year with the Republican led legislature, we would have had $2 billion to deal with some of these affordability issues. And it's almost like we set that money on fire because of the changes that they made within the big ugly bill. (22:53–23:03)

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Asserts that passing Medicaid expansion last year would have provided $2 billion for affordability issues.

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