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On the recordMarch 14, 2016
What do you think about flexibility grants or block grants or making finite--instead of an open-ending fee for service kind of structure--what about taking a finite amount of money and saying look, this is what you have to spend, State X, find out who really is poor, what the poor really need, and how the poor should get it?
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Todd Rokita
Republican · Indiana

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Rokita discusses the idea of capping Medicaid funding to states.

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