John-Kasich-is-an-Idiot-Ping.....
I gotta admit it’s oddly satisfying to just be a spectator in this health care insurance nightmare.
So what did these “some states” think????? That there was a magic healthcare fairy who would pay for it all? The iron law of public spending is that there is no free lunch, despite what some lying or stupid politicians think.
The expansion was designed to destroy states’ budget...thus the country. The morons in state government fell right into the web.
No it's not. ABC News and the AP got Grubered. Obamacare is the craziest thing in the [Marxist] world.
They seem to have forgotten, in their calculations, that when healthcare is provided on a subsidized basis, everyone suddenly gets sick.
And now...
“Estate Asset Recovery”
This is gonna be fun!
If you give away free shoes more people will sign up “than expected”.
If you give away free bread more people will sign up “than expected.”
This is not rocket science.
“Nobody saw it coming” #317.
> rising faster than expected
That’s a BS excuse. The law was intentionally written so states could get a short term “budget win” by having the federal government pay most of the expansion cost for a few years then states would face a huge budget problem that EVERYONE paying attention understood. The federal carrot they chased is running out and they’re making excuses for why citizens will be facing the budget cuts in other areas.
Every single governor that took the carrot knew there would be big, negative budget consequences in the near future. The Ds had to for the party at the expense of citizens. The R governors who took it violated both their citizens and their party. But they decided that re-election (or another short-term issue) was more important than the long-term budget consequences.
Unexpected, again, and again. Who would have guessed?
This is why Texas refused it - the state costs are enormous, and the federal partial rebates to the states for accepting increased loads were temporary.
I live in Arkansas and our previous Gov. Mike Beebe, a Democrat, decided to take the Federal Government’s offer under Obamacare to have them pay 100% of Medicaid cost for three years.
Now that was about three years ago and the reason he took that deal was the State was looking at at least a $400 Million dollar hole in funding.
Now the three years ago are up I think next year or so and the state then has to start picking up the 5% or 10% we have to fund.
Not one politician has addressed this issue and what the projected amount of money involved will be. My guess well north of $500 Million as the Medicaid Roles have expanded by at least 250,000 or more. So the free ride is coming to an end and it will leave our state and others with severe funding problems.
Obamacare has done what is was designed to do, destroy the medical care and insurance field.
