claim: the health care bill "dumps 15 to 18 million low-income americans into a medicaid program that none of us want to be a part of because 50 percent of doctors won't see new patients."
author: lamar alexander
evidence_1: feb 24, 2010 ... lamar alexander said that the democratic health plan "dumps 15 to 18 million  low-income americans into a medicaid program that none of us want to be a part  of because 50 percent of doctors won't see new patients." we found he was  correct about the additional people who would enter the program, but ...
evidence_2: feb 25, 2010 ... president obama holds a bipartisan meeting at blair house on health reform  legislation. ... and in addition, it dumps 15 to 18 million low-income americans  into a medicaid program that none of us would want to be a part of because 50  percent of doctors won't see new patients. so it's like giving someone a ...
evidence_3: 10 hours ago ... many have complicated questions about whether their medicaid or medicare  coverage can shift to their new homes. ... the funding for the centers, which are  often located in under-served areas, is a noncontroversial aspect of the  affordable care act. but the deadline for renewing the money passed in ...
evidence_4: take a trip back in time to the white house signing ceremony for the patient  protection and affordable care act (aca) in march 2010. a jubilant vice  president joe ... medicaid is a joint federal- and state-funded program that  provides health care for over sixty million low-income americans. due to the  aca's expansion of ...
evidence_5: nov 15, 2016 ... but republicans are not trying to replicate what medicaid, medicare and the  affordable care act do now. nor are they trying to maintain the current,  historically high level of health coverage nationwide that these programs have  produced. their goal is to slash government spending on health care and to ...