It's incredibly perverse. Isn't part of the problem too is particularly the Biden administration allowed those providers to charge commercial rates for Medicaid patients. So We're paying what, double and triple sometime versus even Medicare rates? I mean just talk about that dynamic. Absolutely. Under the scheme called state directed payments, you could have politically favored providers that got permission from the state and federal government to charge exorbitant rates far above commercial rates, far above Medicare rates. (07:01–07:06)
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Suggests that healthcare payments can be double or triple the rates of Medicare.
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