Gov. Perry proved right about Medicaid expansion

NY Times:

For Many New Medicaid Enrollees, Care Is Hard to Find, Report Says


A federal report says state standards for access to health care are rarely enforced and that Medicaid patients may wait for months or travel long distances to see a doctor.
Before Obamacare the Medicaid doctors were already overwhelmed with patients and the new law only added to the line and created a greater need to ration for the poor.  It is not the state's standards that are the problem it is the expanded eligibility.  The reimbursement rate is so low that many doctors will not see Medicaid patients.  The rate is low because states are already having difficulty paying for those who were currently using the system.

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