Posted on 01/18/2017 6:08:52 AM PST by artichokegrower
Along with his vow to repeal Obamacare, President-elect Donald Trump has promised to restructure Medicaid, the nation’s low-income health program — a move that could be acutely felt in California, where 1 in 3 residents receive health coverage through the state version, experts say.
Medi-Cal enrollment surged by 5 million over the last three years to a total of 13.5 million under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
Jason I am working 70 hours a week so you can pursue your dreams. Maybe you should wake up to the reality that you suck as an actor and should take another career path.
If Trump’s plan bankrupts the Peoples Republic of California and forces a bunch of jugglers and other lazy layabouts to find real work, its just another argument for the plan.
I’m guessing a large number of those 13.5 million are not citizens of this country. Just saying...
I’m guessing a large number of those 13.5 million are not citizens of this country. Just saying...
And in CA, while you technically have to be a citizen to vote, as a practical matter they look the other way when illegals vote.
California wants to secede, so, “what difference, at this point in time, does it make?”
No matter what other changes are proposed for Medicaid, one change I don’t hear before offered is THE one change that should be implemented, even if nothing else is done.
Better run states should quit subsidizing the states with more Liberal Medicaid benefits - through the federal tax system. That subsidy is done through the federal payment formula for the federal portion of the cost. That formula has the federal government pay 50% of what the state’s cost is. If a state is providing richer Medicaid benefits, it’s costs per recipient are higher and the federal cost per recipient is higher. It Literally rewards states with more Liberal benefits.
The formula for the federal portion of Medicaid should be changed. It should be no more than the lower amount between the national median per recipient Medicare cost, and the actual per recipient Medicare cost a state has. That will make states with more Liberal benefits fund their extra costs themselves.
Another change should insure the federal government pays zero for Medicaid for any illegal residents. States will either have to verify they are only paying Medicaid to citizens and permanent legal residents, or lose all federal Medicaid funding.
One in three people on MediCal is a staggering amount. If you consider the many government employees in CA that have taxpayer paid Cadillac plans, all the prisoners and the illegals getting “free” services, few Californians actually pay for their health insurance.
Rand Paul was just on TV saying that very thing. He said that if individual states want to have expanded Medicare, they need to figure out how to pay for it themselves. He also said he has been working with Trump on this.
Anything that hastens the end of the Blue State model once and for all can’t be a bad thing. Eggs, omelette, all that.
This is wrong, the state’s expanded these programs, Obamacare just funded most of it for the first few years then the funding is decreased in later years.
If Cali wants to keep their CaliCare, they can keep it.
No one can make them change it, this is all a lie.
California . . . 30 million people eligible to vote
8.7 million vote for HRC vs 4.4 million for DJT
California to hire Eric Holder to represent them in any legal fight against Mr. Trump
13.5 million Californians are covered by Medi-Cal. Here's how Trump's plan could cost the state
and . . . what exactly is the problem?
As I recall. 60 Minutes did an expose on Medical. It had 30% fraud in the 90’s.
As I recall. 60 Minutes did an expose on Medical. It had 30% fraud in the 90’s.
Sounds like a winner to me.
How many are ILLEGALS? or idiots like this one.
Half illegals http://www.mercurynews.com/2015/11/09/half-of-californias-undocumented-immigrants-could-qualify-for-medi-cal/
’m guessing a large number of those 13.5 million are not citizens of this country. Just saying...”””
60% of the Calif people on welfare are illegals......Just saying.
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