Alexander Pokes Holes in Senate Health Bill

Senator Lamar Alexander has harsh words for the Senate health bill that passed a procedural hurdle over the weekend.

“This health care bill would dump 15 million more Americans into a health care ghetto, a medical ghetto. It’s a ghetto because 50% of physicians won’t see new Medicaid or TennCare patients because of their reimbursement rates.”

In polls, some of those 50% said they were at least limiting Medicaid patients.

Alexander says the bill also sends the price tag for a “big chunk” of the proposal to states, which are going broke.

The Republican Senator predicts the Democrat-led bill will collapse under its own weight during debate after Thanksgiving.

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