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Tammy Baldwin: “Our legislature failed to accept Medicaid expansion.”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Season 3 Episode 9 The Blue Corner Tammy Baldwin

Published | Video Starts at 19:56

What are your thoughts about Medicaid, the reimbursement rates, and should they be improved so that we can address the needs of these individuals more proactively and better? Right. So first of all, I have to name the big issue in Wisconsin is that Our legislature failed to accept Medicaid expansion. Probably 90,000 more people could be served by Medicaid had they chosen to expand. And it's not too late. They can still do it. (19:56–20:01)

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