The effects that are going to happen as a result of these Medicaid costs are really going to devastate our communities. The reality of cutting people off from Medicaid just by making them do more paperwork. When people do not have doctors to go through to go to the primary care physician, they only end up in hospital emergency rooms. which is the highest cost level of receiving place. Yes. And so hospitals struggle. The hospitals do not want that. Of course. And guess what? You know who else has used emergency rooms? (46:50–47:01)
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Asserts that lack of access to primary care leads people to use emergency rooms.
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