“Free Money,” is how Big Government gets its hooks into everyone. The Libs love to give other peoples’ money away to buy themselves obedience. The big challenge for conservatives is to construct convincing arguments to overcome the bribery. It really is pathetic how libs repeatedly destroy the country by giving away the country’s reserves and conservative have to figure out how to restore those reserves. Then the cycle starts all over again. It never changes because greed is the corrupting force.
Most don't understand that the free money already exists.
Poor people and those without insurance already receive some level of free health care. But there are limits on that free health care, and it is very low quality health care, and it is very expensive health care..
The taxpayers are paying for this free health care with local taxes, state taxes, and federal taxes, as well as by higher health care premiums.
Obamacare is merely a way to disburse the federal money in a different way that expands the amount of health care, improves the quality of the healthcare, and lowers the cost.
In the transition period between the two payment methods, the feds are paying both methods. And Obama said he would continue this for some unknown period, but eventually, the old method money would end.
When that happens, the "old free health care" will have to be paid for by only state and local taxes.
This is why the hospitals are pitching a fit and agitating for the state to expand medicaid. They know that this old federal funding is going to end and they can't absorb it, nor can they recoup it by charging the insurance companies higher prices.
As times go by, the state and local politicians also recognize and acknowledge that the day of reckoning is coming. If Obama is willing to compromise with them, they are willing to compromise with him.
So the states that compromised early on with Obama got the best deals, and those states that compromise later don't get as good of a deal, and those states that hold out to the end will go down in a big ball of flames
If you live in TN, your property taxes are going up, to pay for free health care.
If you live in one of the GOP states that won't expand Medicaid, Obama's gotcha by the ying yang and he will eventually start squeezing.