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Frank Pallone: Medicaid was designed at the federal level to expand and contract according to a state's need and that is a tenant we…

On the recordFebruary 9, 2016
Medicaid was designed at the federal level to expand and contract according to a state's need and that is a tenant we must protect and improve, not reverse.
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Frank Pallone
Democratic · New Jersey

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Pallone stresses the need to maintain Medicaid's flexible structure.

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