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Gene Green: “Cutting $500 billion in Medicare and more than $1.4 trillion in Medicaid is just not what I think a Health and Human…”

On the recordFebruary 14, 2018
Cutting $500 billion in Medicare and more than $1.4 trillion in Medicaid is just not what I think a Health and Human Services Agency ought to be doing.
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Gene Green
Democratic · Texas

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Green criticizes proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid in the President's budget.

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