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Jeff Merkley: “Using the churn as a strategy to simply eliminate Medicaid expansion means roughly 400,000 fewer Oregonians will be…”

On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
Using the churn as a strategy to simply eliminate Medicaid expansion means roughly 400,000 fewer Oregonians will be covered.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley highlights the consequences of Medicaid expansion cuts on Oregonians.

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