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to the reimbursement level for medicare, which is for seniors. why will cutting $880 billion over ten years from the program encourage doctors to keep taking it? sounds to me that it will actually discourage doctors? less money, lower reimbursement rates. remember what the 880 billion mr. is off of. it s off what s called a baseline which is what the federal government, the congressional budget office, says we would spend if we just continued current law. the fact of the matter is medicaid spending under the proposal and under the budget goes up every single year. it goes up by a factor that s equal to the cost of medical care. that means that the states will have greater flexibility to provide coverage and care for their medicaid population than they do right now, and that s incredibly important because as your dad sees, i m absolutely certain, is that oftentimes the medicaid reimbursement doesn t cover the costs of the provision of the care for those kids that he s taking care of.

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