Medicaid has a long history of rationing, restricting care

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The creation of a publicly run health insurance option is no laughing matter. Government-run health care programs like Medicaid have a history of low-quality care. By reducing payments to doctors and hospitals, Americans on these programs have a harder time finding a doctor who will accept them as a patient, thus rationing their access to care. The White House might accuse insurers of rationing care, but research shows patients with Medicaid and SCHIP end up in emergency rooms more often than the privately insured and even the uninsured.

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• health care reform
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• Dennis Smith
• The Heritage Foundation
• Kavita Patel
• medicaid
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• access to care

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I would take medicaid over ANY insurance in the country.

This guy is full of shit.

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Dennis Smith, if Medicaid sucked while you were in charge of it, what did you do to improve it?

Did you ever suggest analyzing other countries to see what they were doing that worked, and what they were doing that failed?