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Ron Johnson: “States are basing their budgets based on [Medicaid…”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson's Wisconsin Town Hall: Addressing Federal Spending, Medicaid, and Immigration Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 42:44

But again, we are a long ways from it because of all the vested interests that are feeding off the corruption, for example of Medicaid expansion, the Obamacare addition, the fact that they're getting reimbursed $9 for every dollar the state spends. States are basing their budgets based on [Medicaid expansion] graft or that grift. Health care providers, the same way the Biden administration allowed health care providers to charge commercial rates for Medicaid services. So we're paying two or three times what we pay for Medicare services. (42:44–42:49)

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Asserts that states rely on Medicaid expansion funds inappropriately for budgeting.

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