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On the recordJuly 17, 2012
The health care law, it was supposedly funded for 10 years by about half a trillion dollars in taxes, fees and penalties, and about a half a trillion dollars, $500 billion, in reductions to Medicare and Medicaid, Medicare Advantage.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Critiquing the funding sources of the health care law.

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