Rep. Arrington on Medicaid: There’s a Lot of Ways to Reorient the System to Make It More Efficient and Root Out Waste and Fraud

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ARRINGTON: “We also have a Medicaid program, because of the Obamacare expansion and the expansion population of able-bodied adults, where the federal government provides 90 cents on every dollar match for that population, but the preponderance of Medicaid beneficiaries, the blind, the disabled, the poor, the sickest among our fellow citizens, get about 60 percent to 65 percent. So all of the health care system is oriented around the 90 percent, the able-bodied adults, and they're not providing the same access, which is to the -- to the traditional Medicaid, which is why the outcomes are going down. So, there is a lot of ways to reorient the system, to make it more efficient, to root out waste and fraud, and it's well over the $800 billion. It's commonsense, straightforward, and you don't have to touch a dime of the benefits.”