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Michael Burgess: “Why wouldn't you fix some of these problems before you undertook to expand a program that, if I understand correctly…”

On the recordJune 1, 2015
Why wouldn't you fix some of these problems before you undertook to expand a program that, if I understand correctly, Mr. Bagdoyan, it was already on a watch list in 2008, and certainly on a watch list in 2009, when the law was written in 2010, when the law was signed.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess questions the decision to expand Medicaid without addressing existing issues first.

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