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On the recordApril 14, 2011
I'm just getting warmed up. Who gets Medicaid? The aged, the blind and the disabled get Medicaid. The Republican budget cuts Medicaid three-quarters of $1 trillion. Seniors will be--not 10 years from now, but immediately, as those budget reductions take place, according to the Republicans--thrown out of nursing homes. I just finished a conversation not more than 2 hours ago with the owner of nursing homes in California. He said, Don't let them do it. We're just hanging on. Any further reductions, any reductions in the Republican bill will force us to send out of our nursing homes the Medi-Cal, which are people covered by Medicaid. Who are these children? These are the children in poverty. The children in poverty get medical services from Medicaid, and Medi-Cal in California, 20 percent. Are those the people you want to throw out in the street? You will do it.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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