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Louisiana’s high Medicaid reliance places state on frontlines of health care cuts
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August 7, 2025
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5:54Now PlayingPresident Trump's big budget law is expected to make the largest cuts ever to Medicaid, a program that currently provides health insurance for some 70 million Americans. As Lisa Desjardins reports, those impacts will be felt in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s home state of Louisiana, which has one of the highest rates of enrollment in the country.
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