private insurance is highly preferrable to medicaid because for one thing, it's -- it reimburses physicians at a higher rate and gives people greater access to physicians and hospitals and greater quality of care. in my state alone in the state of texas, according to the kaiser family foundation, as many as 600,000 new low income texans will benefit from the provisions of the better care act. it will help qualify them for a tax credit not available to them under obamacare. but simply throwing money at medicaid won't help people at all. we need to reform medicaid, make it more efficient, and, frankly, one of the things i did back when we were debating the affordable care act in the senate finance committee, i actually introduced an amendment that said members of congress would go on medicaid. well, it failed, but the point i was trying to make if members of congress were on medicaid, we would fix medicaid. but right now it's subordinate standard health care for -- subordinate standard health care for the reasons i mentioned and the doctors in my state refused to see a medicaid patient becaus