GOP congressman pinpoints 'staggering statistic' that led him to tackle Medicaid

A Republican lawmaker on Saturday gave a "staggering statistic" about Medicaid from his home state.

Appearing on CNN over the weekend, Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) was asked about the Medicaid cuts in Donald Trump's big budget bill.

Specifically, the host asked if Murphy was worried those cuts would disproportionately hit his own constituents harder, since North Carolina has more than the average number of residents on Medicaid.

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Murphy acknowledged that was the case, but seemed to imply that is more of a reason to slow the growth of the program.

He noted that "52% of the births in the state of North Carolina are born to women on Medicaid."

"That's a staggering statistic," he added. "If you think and you follow that down the road, there has to be something done fundamentally to stop this from occurring and growing at such a rate."

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