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Ron Johnson: “It's a financing scam. We're trying to end that because it's…”

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Provider taxes, provider fees, which aren't health care by the way, but they get reimbursed $9 for every dollar the state kicks in there. So again, It's a financing scam. We're trying to end that because it's causing the outflow, hundreds of billions of dollars out of the federal government. We don't have the money. So that alone could fill about $500 billion of that gap if we give states until the first part of 2029 to end the scam. (02:59–03:08)

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Asserts that the Medicaid expansion financing is a scam causing hundreds of billions in federal outflow.

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