Sen. Markwayne Mullin on the One Big Beautiful Bill: "What we're doing is cutting the waste, fraud, and abuse out of the Medicaid systemâand make sure it's for the people that it was originally intended forâ¦â
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>> What we're doing is cutting the waste, fraud and abuse, and I wanna use that word abuse, out of the Medicaid system and make sure it's for the people that it was originally intended for. Keep in mind right now, there's 35 million people that live under the poverty line inside the United States. Yet there's 70 million that's on Medicaid. Now it's unsustainable. Medicaid was designed for those in the most dire need, and that's what we need to make sure it's there for. Now what people are upset about, especially in states, is ever since Obamacare, there's been this loophole that allows the states to actually charge providers an exorbitant amount to pay their share. And so instead of the states paying their share, they're charging the providers, which one requires the United States taxpayers and other states to offset these high provider taxes inside different states. North Carolina has a high provider tax. What we're saying is it needs to be even. Every state should be the same, and so we're gradually bringing down what states provide and making it even across the board. And so there's an even playing field. So one state like Oklahoma is an offsetting high provider taxes in North Carolina or California.
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