One Nation, Under Medicaid, With Misery and Poverty for All

Canada Free Press ^ | 06/14/17 | Megan Barth

[Sean_Anthony]

In Nevada, we will know the difference between a moderate Republican and a Socialist by Friday

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.—Ronald Reagan

In a recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 24 states have a majority of births financed by Medicaid. In other words, a majority of births in nearly half of our nation are born into poverty. This is progress according to Progressives Socialists, the champions of big government (not the little guy) and the architects of the disaster known as Obamacare. So why would Socialists double down on a big government solution to a big government problem known as Obamacare? Simple. More dependency yields bigger bureaucracy. Bigger bureaucracy yields more wealth confiscation. Wealth confiscation yields more poverty, and the vicious, Socialist experiment continues until there is equal misery and poverty for all—except for the politically-connected bourgeois.

[DannyTN]

Trump's approach is the right approach. Build the economy to reduce poverty and poverty programs like Medicaid will automatically reduce.

Ryan's approach in his first budget is the wrong approach. Ryan wanted to cut Medicaid without fixing the trade issues that are destroying our industries.

Medicaid is not the problem. Poverty is the problem.

"In FY 2011, total national Medicaid spending per enrollee was $5,790. When excluding “partial-benefit enrollees,” national spending per enrollee was $6,502. In general, states in the south tend to have lower spending per enrollee, while states in the northeast have higher spending per enrollee.Jan 28, 2015"

"NHE grew 5.8% to $3.2 trillion in 2015, or $9,990 per person, and accounted for 17.8% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Medicare spending grew 4.5% to $646.2 billion in 2015, or 20 percent of total NHE. Medicaid spending grew 9.7% to $545.1 billion in 2015, or 17 percent of total NHE.Mar 21, 2017"

[JimRed]

The cure for that fiasco is to require members of congress to participate in everything they demand of the rest of us.