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Iowa Senate hearing with Medicaid MCO
https://www.facebook.com/IowaSenateDemocrats/videos/10155223736011778/I will try posting the facebook video, but I doubt it will take so go to the link above to view. It is @ 1.5 hours.
https://www.facebook.com/IowaSenateDemocrats/videos/10155223736011778/
I believe we have a $5B Medicaid budget in Iowa. When the state ran it we paid 4% overhead or @ $200,000,000.
The MCOs get 15% which is $750,000,000 and we get a much worse outcome. And of course they want more.