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Checked by PolitiFact18 Aug 2020United StatesHealth
National Republican Senatorial Committee, Senatorial Committee

“[Steve] Bullock’s health care plan will force rural hospitals to close. Medicare as we know it will change, replaced by a government-run program with fewer doctors and longer wait times.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: It's not clear that the implementation of a public option for health insurance would lead to lower reimbursement rates and cause rural hospitals to close. Medicare is already a government-run program.