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Join us at child advocates.net. Mike Braun has defended his administration's directive to stop

advertising Medicaid programs, calling it a broken program.

He restated that it's broken.

He criticized the federal government's handling of the program, particularly in Congress.

So we touched on this yesterday and we said, obviously, this is actually going to end up being a hot, button topic.

Because as we said yesterday, this will, this will hurt our industry. It will hurt us

because we do get some radio advertising that promote these services. So we said that,

you know, we're not going to, you know, dis, you know, mislead our audience when we're talking about a topic, but it's something we need to talk about.

And we said the challenge is, how do you solve the Medicaid crisis?

There's clearly a lot of money going out the door here and way more money going out than is coming in.

And we are on a freight trained insolvency with this thing and I think

Braun's trying to get a handle around it. The problem with this proposal, and we were talking

with one of our bosses yesterday about this, and it sounds like it's going to end up in the courts

very quickly. Yeah. Because apparently digital advertising has been exempted.

That's a major issue and a major mistake Braun made, if that is indeed true.

Because it's one thing to say, okay, we're cutting everybody off on this.

Okay, fine.

But what you've got is these, and we talked about this yesterday,

you've got these private companies that Medicaid is contracting with.

They're getting Medicaid dollars.

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