Posted on 11/30/2009 3:11:16 AM PST by Scanian
The "healthc-care reform" bills in Congress would hit 39 states hard with new expenses, by raising Medicaid eligibility above the cur rent income cutoffs.
The only states that won't have to raise eligibility because of the Senate bill are Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin (plus the District of Columbia). And the House bill would force even Massachusetts and Vermont to pay more.
Hardest hit would be Texas ($2,750 million a year in extra state spending under the Senate bill), Pennsylvania ($1,450 million), California ($1,428 million) and Florida ($909 million). Who knows if Florida could avoid imposing an income tax if it has to meet so high an unfunded mandate?
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Don’t mess with Texas ping
This was the same tactic as unemployment extension. States are going broke to fund federal “mandates”. This country is more divided now than ever, which was likely the goal to begin with.
$3 trillion is CATOS’ new estimate of the cost of the Senate BIll:
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10969
La de da it’s not just states that will be hard hit...it’s seniors, Veterans and retired Military! We are getting tripled whammied! There are to be NEW co-pays besides the ones on medicines in Tri Care for Life, over $2,500 dollars per person per year. Plus an 8% cut in Medicare benefits and increased monthly premiums. How is that a savings to the average Jane and Joe Citizen? And you want to bet a dime that those most effected will NOT qualify for any type ‘government’ hand out like food stamps to offset the loss of income due to having to pay MORE for their medical care?
Those of us in the medical field aren’t going to do well with this one either. First there will be the cuts in medicare and medicaid reimbursement (and they already do not cover the cost of their care) Income will take a huge hit at the same time our taxes are raised to pay for this monster. THen our own insurance copays will go up, bye bye HSA’s and by the way we probably have cadillac plans (whatever that means) so there go more taxes.
When I walk through the hospital, I keep asking all the liberal nurses and support staff how they will enjoy their 20% paycut. They think I am joking. Actually, I probably am - it will probably be worse.
The liberal docs I have a hard time even talking to, but ask how they are going to like the end of their practice as they know it. I’m sure they will LOVE being a government employee.
I however, will retire. I am NOT going to be a government employee for the last 15 years of my career. We will get by on much lower income, and will sit back and watch the doc shortages, the rationing of care, the hospitals closing despite being overcrowded, and wait to pick up the pieces if sanity returns.
Otherwise, I have always wanted to open a quilt shop.....
I hear what you are saying a lot of doctors are saying the same thing.
To some extent we already have rationed health care. I've tried for a year to get TRL to pay for my Synthroid, the generic makes ulcers in my mouth ( I wear a partial plate), and generics are not constant in manufacture and are not given an A rating vs the Synthroid by TRL, yet they turn me down even though their own criteria says it needs to be FDA approved and in keeping with good medical practices...said my Doc's nurse didn't give them a clinical explanation in requesting an exemption. She told them only according to TRL that the generic didn't work as well as the Synthroid for me...I have Fibromyalgia along with OA/OP and I don't need my system upset with side effects, I'm in enough pain as it is.
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