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Former Bush Medicaid Director: Slow Down On Medicaid Overhaul

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Two former directors of Medicaid — one who served under a Democrat, the other under a Republican — are asking Congress not to change Medicaid right now.

Gail Wilensky ( @gailwilenskycom), who ran the program under President George H. W. Bush, tells Here & Now‘s Meghna Chakrabarti that the program needs some changes, but the current health care bill is not the way to do it.

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