Ted Lieu: “There's a $500 billion cut slated for Medicare.”

“Thank you Chair Magular. So Republicans have continued to attack health care. They pass a law enact and enacted policies to make health care more expensive. They made deep cuts to Medicaid. There's a $500 billion cut slated for Medicare. And the Forward Care act is going to dramatically increase because of Republicans attacks on health care. Yesterday a Gallup poll came out showing that this is now weighing on American people's minds in a very big way.” (02:07–02:11)

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