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TexasTowelie

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Wed Jun 28, 2017, 08:45 PM Jun 2017

Daugaard: Medicaid cuts could bring crucial savings [View all]

A proposal to slash funding to Medicaid could be the only opportunity to shrink the federal deficit in a divided Congress, Gov. Dennis Daugaard said Thursday.

The Republican governor said shrunken Medicaid funding laid out in the Better Care Reconciliation Act, shared Thursday by a group of Senate Republicans, could create needed savings for the federal government.

"That might be the only way that we will ever get control of spending," Daugaard said.

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"I think everyone wants to provide care for those who need help," Daugaard said. "At the same time we don't want to end up becoming like Greece."

Read more: http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/22/daugaard-medicaid-cuts-could-bring-crucial-savings/419219001/

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