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Relationship. the chairman of the subcommittee started out by talking about medicaid which the president's plan would increase by some 17 million to try to help insure the uninsured, but he noted that's a system that's already overburdened. >> right now less than half of all physicians accept new medicaid patients because of the low payment rates and high administrative cost. under the new health care law, enrollees will continue to overwhelm emergency rooms because of the lack of access to primary carings care physicians. >> reporter: now, democrats defended the law, but republicans point tod...

>> you know, it is a comment that's just, i think it's alarming when you hear that from someone who has been really excited about being a primary care doctor for the last 20 years. insurance companies, drug companies, government regulations, decreasing reimbursements has had us on thin ice for probably a decade. this weekend the ice broke through. this is the weekend where i think things come crashing in. the latest survey showed 26% of doctors have either close the office or plan on closing their offices in the next few months. i think we'll see tens of thousands of doctors leave medicine. >>...