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Lamar Alexander: “I mean, 30 years ago, State budgets were 8 percent Medicaid; today, they are 25 percent.”

On the recordJuly 18, 2012
I mean, 30 years ago, State budgets were 8 percent Medicaid; today, they are 25 percent.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the increasing burden of Medicaid on state budgets.

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