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Ron Johnson: “Providers are getting two or three times the rate for the…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Ron Johnson Discusses Budget Reconciliation and Medicaid Reform on Tudor Dixon Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 06:29

And this is, people need to understand this. So for the exact same service, if you're in Medicare, that will be one rate. But we're finding Providers are getting two or three times the rate for the same service for a single working age adult under Medicaid. Again, another distortion. So that's what we were trying to fix before we ever came up with a number, before we ever signed anything for a committee, we should have been saying, hey, here are the goals. (06:29–06:36)

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