John Thune
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136 appearances
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1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jul 2025
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And I think, Ben, um, to that point, these are common sense reforms.
And and reforms that I think when the American people hear about them, they say, well, that makes sense.
You know, we I've seen polling that suggests 72% of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, support work requirements.
And so I think that was a a very important starting point.
Uh as you point out, there have been states and uh you know have really abused the issue of provider taxes.
State directed payments.
And great examples of that, of course, are New York and California, where they've used those types of things to cover illegals, people who shouldn't be on Medicaid in the first place.
And so what we've tried to do is say, you know what, we aren't, and frankly, the Democrats, and they're going to lie about this because that's what they do, particularly on the issue of healthcare, you know, talk about steep cuts to Medicaid.
We're actually increasing.
You know, we're going to continue to
Medicaid is going to continue to grow in terms of just its the rate of inflation over time.
It's just not going to grow at the 50 or 60% that it's grown at in the last five years.
So we're slowing the rate of growth, not cutting it, but doing it in a way that gets rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse in the program and restores the program to the people for whom it was intended.
And those are low-income seniors, those are pregnant moms, those are disabled people.
Instead of
able-bodied adults that states have been adding to the program so they can get more federal money, 90% federal match.
And uh and so these are these are common sense reforms that I think when people hear about them, and that's going to be our challenge is getting out and telling the story, they're going to agree with.
Uh I I think you're right.
Um, Ben.
I think honestly the president, uh, to his credit, uh, sees the world with a, you know, as a in a very clear-eyed way and realizes that America's got to be a leader in that world.
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