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7 October
6:29 pm

Since the privatization of Medicaid, we were seeing a one thousand percent in denial rate.

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Josh Turek, at Iowa U.S. Senate General Election Debate

6:29 pm
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Why we checked itA 1000% increase in denial rates is a dramatic and specific statistical claim that could be verified or refuted through Medicaid data before and after Iowa's privatization.
What we foundThe core fact is real — Iowa's Medicaid privatization was associated with a documented spike in illegal denials — but the figure is approximately 891%, not '1,000%,' and the metric measures overturned appeals (illegal denials), not the overall denial rate.
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