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On the recordDecember 8, 2014
To expect Medicaid to do that on some notion that an already lean program can somehow be magically more efficient makes no sense at all.
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Frank Pallone
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Pallone criticizes the expectation of Medicaid becoming more efficient without additional support.

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