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Patrick Testin: “Eau Claire area heavy on Medicaid.”

Featuring: Patrick Testin, Republican | President pro tempore, Wisconsin Senate

Campaign 2024_ Sen. Patrick Testin (R) Stevens Point - Incumbent Candidate for 24th Senate District

Published September 12, 2024 | Video Starts at 15:24

And then the other issue too is making sure that hospitals have a healthy mix of their payers or payees. The issues that we saw up in the Eau Claire area. Eau Claire area heavy on Medicaid. It's one of the primary reasons why in the last several budgets that we have baked into the base budget is our disproportionate share of Medicaid for our critical access hospitals. (15:24–15:27)

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