A statement by State Senator Joe Bolkcom of Iowa City, member of the Health Policy Oversight Committee, in response to today’s Medicaid privatization report by Governor Branstad and Lt. Governor Reynolds.
“It’s unbelievable that Governor Branstad and Lt. Governor Reynolds would claim that it’s good news for Iowans that fewer than one-third of Iowa’s Medicaid providers have signed up for their proposed Medicaid privatization program.
“It is actually bad news because the effect of such low participation by health care providers would be to prevent hundreds of thousands of Iowans from accessing affordable, quality health care. This is additional evidence in support of delaying implementation of Medicaid privatization by the Branstad/Reynolds Administration.”
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