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In the last 24 hours, Lauren Adler and Matt Feeler over at Brookings say 15 million people will go off the

rolls. Do you agree? I don't think it's going to be 15 million people if you look

at those who are enrolled in the Medicaid

expansion or a lot of them were actually eligible before Obamacare passed a lot of

them could obtain private coverage especially if you repeal the Obamacare regulations, which will cause

premiums to plummet for the vast majority of people in the exchanges.

That is why the bill that Paul Ryan and the Republican leaders in the House have put

forward is so inadequate. It does not repeal those regulations. Those

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