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On the recordFebruary 14, 2018
the notion that somehow people think that you should cut Medicaid and Medicare or block-grant Medicaid as a way to save dollars just because the population is growing, because of the demographics in our population, I just think is wrongheaded.
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Cantwell criticizes the idea of cutting Medicaid and Medicare based on population growth.

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