Toomey: ‘We Make Permanent’ Obama’s Medicaid Eligibility Expansion

‘The fact is they won’t lose coverage because of the Senate bill’

RUSH TAPPER:
TAPPER: "We’re both Pennsylvanians 2.8 million Pennsylvanians are covered by Medicaid. 700,000 are covered by the Medicaid expansion. What do you say to the people who are worried they might lose coverage because of the Republican Senate bill?"
TOOMEY: "The fact is they won’t lose coverage because of the Senate bill, what we do, we codify, we make permanent the Medicaid expansion. As you know, Jake, there were four categories of eligible people for Medicaid. ObamaCare created a fifth. That is able-bodied adult with no gents. That category never before was covered. ObamaCare made them eligible. We keep them eligible."
 

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