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Dusty Johnson: “They [California] had a scam running whereby they were…”

Featuring: Dusty Johnson, Republican | U.S. House, South Dakota's At-Large Congressional District

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Not South Dakota, but that other states were engaged in, particularly California. Our bill. Oh, come on. Congress was my home state. I know. Well, they had. So They [California] had a scam running whereby they were charging four times what South Dakota charges for the same procedure. And they were gobbling up all that federal money. And so what we did is just say, nope, every state's got to play by the same type of rules South Dakota has been playing by. (00:36–13:24)

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Asserts that California was charging four times more than South Dakota for the same medical procedures.

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