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Podcast: Inside the Senate’s Secret Health Care Talks

The Week Ahead, Episode 58

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)
By Shawn Zeller and Kerry Young
Posted June 16, 2017 at 3:06pm

Capping Medicaid payments is just one of several ideas Republican senators are kicking around as they struggle to fashion a health care bill to overhaul Obamacare, says CQ Roll Call health care reporter Kerry Young, who provides the latest developments.

 

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