RFK Jr.: ‘We’re Not Going to Cut Medicaid and There’s Nobody Who’s Going to Die from This’

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KENNEDY JR.: “First of all, there’s no cuts on Medicaid. There — there’s a diminishment of the growth rate of Medicaid, which is bankrupting our country. And by the way, the national debt is also a determinant, a social determinant of health. If we’re leaving our kids with these giant debts, they can’t afford healthcare, they can’t afford good food. In 1996 when Larry Summers was working for President Clinton, they put in the TANF program, they put in a work requirement. And it was regarded as one of the most successful poverty diminishment programs in the entire Clinton administration. You know, in recent years, ObamaCare, included — Medicaid was designed, Larry, for people who were poor, for children, for mothers. And it was expanded during the ObamaCare to include able-bodied Americans and the growth rate went way up. The hospital services and doctor services are no longer available for the target population. This is not a good outcome and we’re bankrupting the states. It’s the — it is the biggest expense for all of our states. They’re all going bankrupt. We’ve got to do something to fix it. And luckily, we have a president who’s willing to do that. We’re not going to cut Medicaid and there’s nobody going to — who’s going to die from this.”