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Ron Johnson: “Unfortunately, in medicine, with CMS, with Medicare, with Medicaid, with so much government intervention in that…”

On the recordApril 13, 2021
Unfortunately, in medicine, with CMS, with Medicare, with Medicaid, with so much government intervention in that marketplace, the Medicaid formularies--which I have tried to understand, and they are impossible to understand--that is the reason, I would argue, we have shortages.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Johnson discusses government intervention as a cause of shortages in medicine.

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