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Richard Burr: If I may add to Dr. Coburn's comments and say, when you double the size of the Medicaid population, you are already…

On the recordMarch 24, 2010
If I may add to Dr. Coburn's comments and say, when you double the size of the Medicaid population, you are already forcing more doctors to say: I am not going to see Medicaid patients. But you are changing the payer mix. Every provider, every practice, every hospital is going to see more patients whose reimbursement is less. That is automatically going to affect Medicare right there because people are going to have to try to bring in more private pay, private insurance.
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Richard Burr
Republican · North Carolina
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Mar 24, 2010

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Burr discusses the impact of expanding Medicaid on healthcare providers and Medicare.

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