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Rick Santorum: “I said, what you are suggesting is that someone who is no longer on AFDC but is Medicaid eligible because of this…”

On the recordJuly 19, 1996
I said, what you are suggesting is that someone who is no longer on AFDC but is Medicaid eligible because of this grandfathering is not going to have an incentive to take a better job, potentially with benefits, potentially with opportunities for greater advancement, because if they come into a situation where they lose that job, they would not be able to get back on Medicaid. I am looking at someone making an economically rational decision. To me that would not be an economically rational decision. I think the grandfathering does take care of that situation, and if that mother does have a problem and falls back on AFDC, she is then eligible for Medicaid again. I do not think I see the problem that the Senator from Rhode Island has put forward.
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Rick Santorum
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Discussing the implications of Medicaid eligibility and AFDC during a debate.

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