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Lawmaker urges support for H.R. 498, the "Do No Harm in Medicaid Act"
Summary
An unnamed member of Congress spoke on the House floor in support of H.R. 498, saying it would bar federal Medicaid funding for specified gender transition procedures and citing a CBO estimate of $445 million in savings over 10 years; the transcript's age phrasing was unclear.
An unnamed member of Congress rose on the House floor to urge colleagues to support H.R. 498, the "Do No Harm in Medicaid Act," saying the measure would bar federal Medicaid funding for certain gender transition procedures and help curb what the speaker called medically unnecessary spending.
The lawmaker framed the bill as a taxpayer-protection measure, saying "our valuable and finite tax dollars should not continue to fund medically unnecessary care under the Medicaid program"…
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