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Ron Johnson: “We pay 90 cents on the dollar versus a disabled child, 50 to…”

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People have to understand that what's, what's destroying Medicaid is Obamacare, the Medicaid expansion where we're paying 90 cents on the dollar for working age adults, people that. Consume single able bodied adults without children. So, so We pay 90 cents on the dollar versus a disabled child, 50 to 60%. That's the way Medicaid was set up. to make sure it's a shared program so states would monitor it, not provide benefits to ineligible individuals. With Medicaid expansion, they love signing up ineligible because they actually make money out, they tax it. (18:07–18:14)

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Asserts that Medicaid pays 90% for working-age adults compared to 50-60% for disabled children.

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