Sen. Barrasso: ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion Takes Money Away from States

‘When the states have to pay more for that, there is less money for teachers, for schools, for highways, for public safety’

BARRASSO: “Well we know that states are those that have -- Medicaid is the state's most expensive budget item and so when the states have to pay more for that, there is less money for teachers, for schools, for highways, for public safety, and we know that Medicaid is a very costly, and inefficient, and ineffective way to provide health care for people because so many doctors don't want to see those patients.”
HEMMER: “I apologize for the interruption. Was that expected? Because Medicaid is expensive.”
BARRASSO: “Medicaid is very expensive, but they pay doctors very little and the paperwork is so great. But that's what the president's goal was, is to put more and more Americans on Medicaid, a broken system that doesn't really provide the quality care that people want. The president has focused on empty coverage instead of quality care. He keeps talking about giving people Medicaid cards, but it's like giving somebody a bus ticket when no bus is coming, if those people can't actually get quality care, which is just one more failure of the Obama health care law.”

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