Senate Proceeding on Sep 24th, 2009 :: 0:28:05 to 0:28:55
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Sam Brownback: said don't shift it to if you want to expand medicaid from washington, pay for it from washington. mr. brownback: we've got 40% of our physicians in kansas are saying they're not taking more medicaid patients. that's 40% now. now you're talking about expanding medicaid, the number

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Speech By: Sam Brownback

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Sam Brownback: of people in medicaid when 40% of your doctors are saying we aren't taking them. you're saying why won't the doctors take it? it's not that they don't want to have medicaid patients, but it's these reimbursement ratios they get. listen to these numbers from me

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Sam Brownback: dpac are saying medicaid provider reimbursement rates are from private insurance. 80% of that is medicaid. medicaid is 72% of medicare. you're cutting it even back further to the point that