On the recordDecember 11, 2013
To the Senator's point about Medicaid, in Texas, I believe the number is basically only one out of every three doctors-- about a third of doctors--will see a new Medicaid patient because it reimburses at about 50 cents on the dollar of what a private insurance plan will. I know there is the problem of coverage versus access that the Senator alluded to. But I wanted to just ask the Senator about that sometimes our friends who supported this legislation said: If you care about getting people with preexisting conditions coverage or if you care about young people being able to stay on their parents' health insurance coverage, you have to take the whole enchilada; in other words, you have to accept all 2,700 pages of ObamaCare, and that is the only way you could address these concerns. Are there ways to address some of these legitimate concerns, such as preexisting conditions, without embracing all of ObamaCare?
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