So were more than doubling on paper the cost of this program. And when you consider that theres another. oh. approximately $30 billion that the tax increase in this bill does not cover. were getting up to tripling. quadrupling the size of this program. Now. the gentleman earlier said that no abuses such as illegal immigrants gaining benefits have ever been Identified. Well. I would refer the gentleman to the 2005 HHS Inspector General report in which the Inspector General says that 47 States allowed selfdeclaration in the United States citizenship for Medicaid and he asked for those States to give him an audit. Only one State did that. the State of Oregon. The Secretary of State provided an audit. and in that audit he found out of 812 individuals sampled. who were Medicaid beneficiaries in that State. 25 of them were noneligible noncitizens. So. Mr.
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