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ObamaCare's Medicaid Expansion Is Blowing Up
Investor's Business Daily ^
| 07/20/2015
| Staff
Posted on 07/21/2015 4:40:23 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
During the debates on ObamaCare, Medicaid got little attention. That was a mistake, since enrollment and the cost of treating all those jumping onto the program is surging beyond expectations.
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KEYWORDS: healthcare; medicaid; obamacare
To: IBD editorial writer
As it was intended to do. Single payer here we come....
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posted on
07/21/2015 4:42:23 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: IBD editorial writer
Costs for Medicaid are shared by the Fed and the states. They (Feds) knew going in this ACA was just a ploy to try and bankrupt states and diminish Medicaid delivery.
What they’re hoping for is fiscal chaos that will cause a clamor for the Fed to take over the whole damn mess. National Health Care and massive tax increases.
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posted on
07/21/2015 4:47:05 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: b4its2late
One of the greatest all time oxymorons: Universal excellent affordable health care.
If anyone thinks it is expensive now, wait till it is free!
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posted on
07/21/2015 4:51:01 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
To: IBD editorial writer
“beyond expectations.”
Unexpected.
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posted on
07/21/2015 5:13:26 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: IBD editorial writer
ANYTHING OBAMA SAYS is worthless.
Watch what he does, and not what he says.
The ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF wants ~ and is DIRECTING the policies that regulate ALL health care plansin the United States ~
TO FAIL ! NEVER FORGET THAT !
Many of us have said for many years that
Obama is doing this INTENTIONALLY. He using the old Soviet Plan from 1934 or earlier.
Only idiots and the evil voted for Obama, or ANY of the Democrats.
AND NOW, WE CAN ADD
"Establishment Republicans" TO THAT LIST, ALSO!
They've lied to us, constantly, and really are
"Collapsing the System". And now, these "Useful IDIOTS" who voted for them, are buying the lies that "Obamacare was designed to work." ?
It was designed to fail from the start.
THEN ... THEY GO TO THE
"SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM".
They've been sucking our wallets dry for over four years now on the "Obamacare" LIE.
AND NOW THEY WANT MORE TAXES ?
Our Founding Fathers would have hung them already!
Lets review:
Who was it that cut future funding for Medicare by $575 billion?
...the president and the Democratic Party successfully bamboozle voters... The 2012 election could turn on this falsehood.
The truth is that the Obama health law reduces future funding for Medicare by $575 billion over the next 10 years ...
Mr. Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius frequently make that false claim.
Indeed, even Medicare's mailings to seniors repeat the claim
that reducing spending on Medicare will make it more financially secure for future years.
The fact is that Mr. Obama's law raids Medicare.
"In early 1968 President Lyndon Johnson [DEMOCRAT] made a change in the budget presentation by including Social Security and all other trust funds in a"unified budget." "
Who was it that expanded Medicare and Medicaid to cover many, many more people than it was originally designed to cover?
The History of Medicare
In 1965, the Social Security Act established both Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare was a responsibility of the Social Security Administration (SSA), while Federal assistance to the State Medicaid programs was administered by the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). SSA and SRS were agencies in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). In 1977, the Health Care Financing Administration was created under HEW to effectively coordinate Medicare and Medicaid. In 1980 HEW was divided into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The first U.S. President to propose a prepaid health insurance plan was Harry S. Truman [DEMOCRAT]. On November 19, 1945, in a special message to Congress, President Truman outlined a comprehensive, prepaid medical insurance plan for all people through the Social Security system. The plan included doctors and hospitals, and nursing, laboratory, and dental services; it was dubbed "National Health Insurance." Furthermore, medical insurance benefits for needy people were to be financed from Federal revenues.
Over the years, lawmakers narrowed the field of health insurance recipients largely to social security beneficiaries. A national survey found that only 56 percent of those 65 years of age or older had health insurance. President John F. Kennedy [DEMOCRAT] pressed legislators for health insurance for the aged. However, it wasn't until 1965 that President Lyndon B. Johnson signed H.R. 6675 (The Social Security Act of 1965; PL 89-97) to provide health insurance for the elderly and the poor.
On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Bill (Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act) in Independence, Missouri in the presence of former President Truman, who received the first Medicare card at the ceremony; Lady Bird Johnson, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, and Mrs. Truman also were present. President Johnson remarked: "We marvel not simply at the passage of this Bill but that it took so many years to pass it."
Medicare extended health coverage to almost all Americans aged 65 or older. About 19 million beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare in the first year of the program. Medicaid provided access to health care services for certain low-income persons and expanded the existing Federal-State welfare structure that assisted the poor.
The 1972 Social Security Amendments expanded Medicare to provide coverage to two additional high risk groups disabled persons receiving cash benefits for 24 months under the social security program and persons suffering from end-stage renal disease.
...(continued at link)
So Democrats,
Sen Mark Kirk's
statement Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 ...
"There are 55 million Social Security beneficiaries that will see little or no extra cash from this 2012 tax holiday;
instead, the dedicated payroll contributions meant to pay for future benefits are being diverted from the Trust Fund
and replaced with Treasury debt that does not even have a AAA credit rating.
Social Security was designed to be independent and free from the danger of Congressional manipulation,
and maintaining the firewall between the Social Security Trust Fund and general government funding is the best way to maintain the solvency of this important program.
Neither bill protects the Social Security Trust Fund
so I voted no. "
It's not our fault that
DEMOCRATS raided the Social Security Trust Fund. Let's remember ...
Not ALL are to blame for the empty lock box.
It's the Democrats Communists.
Let's take a deeper look.
Okay, then the DEMOCRATS need to shut up!!!
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posted on
07/21/2015 5:19:00 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: IBD editorial writer
Don’t worry, we have a Central Bank and the world’s reserve currency. Our government can print all the money it wants, suppress interest rates, monetize debt - all to keep government social engineering schemes running. And the world has to take it.
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posted on
07/21/2015 5:33:04 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: IBD editorial writer
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posted on
07/21/2015 5:39:46 AM PDT
by
charlie72
To: b4its2late
Isn’t Medicaid single payer? It’s all confusing.
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posted on
07/21/2015 5:52:11 AM PDT
by
ncpatriot
To: PGR88
Not for long they don’t. And they won’t.
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posted on
07/21/2015 6:05:22 AM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: ncpatriot
Yes, and we are all being slowly herded into it.
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posted on
07/21/2015 6:06:10 AM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: Mouton
If anyone thinks it is expensive now, wait till it is free!
Bingo! Ask a Canadian. Most are honest enough to tell you that they pay a buttload of taxes for it.
To: PGR88
Dont worry, we have a Central Bank and the worlds reserve currency. Our government can print all the money it wants, suppress interest rates, monetize debt - all to keep government social engineering schemes running. And the world has to take it.
You've stated my belief succinctly and brilliantly. Every other country is in worse shape, no matter how bad we are. Hence no other logical alternatives for a reserve currency. The entire world economy floats on our Fed and it's printing presses. I think the game of Three Card Monte may endure for the rest of my lifetime.
To: IBD editorial writer
Luckily our governor, Mary Fallin, declined the federal “help” because she saw that it leads directly to uncontrolled burdens on the states that accepted. Could not every state see that coming???
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posted on
07/21/2015 6:32:27 AM PDT
by
OK_Sam
(OK_Sam)
To: IBD editorial writer
... and we thought we were getting "free" health care?...
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posted on
07/21/2015 6:33:08 AM PDT
by
Gritty
(The wicked strut freely about when what is vile is honored among men - Psalm 12:8)
To: PGR88
Some have already said “enough” of that crap.
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posted on
07/21/2015 6:34:59 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: IBD editorial writer
I worry about asset forfeiture if forced into Medicaid. The latest article I can find is from April 2015, saying states were thinking about changing payment recovery laws and practices. Taking people’s ability to purchase a health insurance plan that works for them and then forcing them into Medicaid instead to steal their life’s work is execrable.
To: EVO X
Where did all the extra signups come from? California had more than 3 times the estimate and Illinois had double the signup for expanded Medicaid. It would seem to me they would have to be unmarried part time workers of various ages. If they make under $16K and change, they are eligible for Medicaid. It would be to the advantage of couples that work part time to shack up and not get married.
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posted on
07/21/2015 12:05:16 PM PDT
by
EVO X
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