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Thanks for the opportunity for me to explain.

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A lot of people don't fully understand.

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The Medicaid Expansion Program is a national
money bucket that

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we all spend money into through our federal
taxes.

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So every American pays into it.

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And with this national money bucket, money
flows from this

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bucket into each state of the country that is
opted

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into the Medicaid expansion program, which is
most states in

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the country, but not Texas.

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So we Texans pay uh money into this national
money

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bucket and then it flows to California because
they have

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opted into Medicaid expansion.

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It flows into New Jersey because they've opted
into Medicaid

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expansion, but not back here in Texas.

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Because we have wanted to join the Medicaid
expansion, both

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Democrats and Republicans, and the state house
and state senate

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has pushed that legislation to Governor
Abbott's desk, but then

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Governor Abbott decided to veto it.

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We are losing about $10 billion a year for
this.

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We're losing about we've lost, I think about a
hundred

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billion dollars over the past ten years over
this of

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money that could have been put here in Texas,
all

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while I was talking about my friend Kenneth
who's having

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to drop her Medicaid recipients because she's
she says the

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mic the Medicaid money's just not there
anymore, especially especially

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with inflation and after the rates have not
been adjusted.

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So it's completely needless.

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It is bipartisan.

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Uh it's just Governor Abbott has blocked it
because the

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Medicaid expansion program is part of the
Affordable Care Act,

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or as some people call it Obamacare, and
Governor Abbott

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has made a career out of basically trying to
knock

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down everything that has Obama's name on it.