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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

1 posted on 07/21/2015 4:40:23 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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To: IBD editorial writer

As it was intended to do. Single payer here we come....


2 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.)
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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.


3 posted on 07/21/2015 4:47:05 AM PDT by Gaffer
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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!

4 posted on 07/21/2015 4:51:01 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

“beyond expectations.”

Unexpected.


5 posted on 07/21/2015 5:13:26 AM PDT by lowbridge
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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 plans
in 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 expanded Medicare and Medicaid to cover many, many more people than it was originally designed to cover?

So Democrats,
Sen Mark Kirk's statement Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 ... It's not our fault that DEMOCRATS raided the Social Security Trust Fund.
Let's remember ...

6 posted on 07/21/2015 5:19:00 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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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.


7 posted on 07/21/2015 5:33:04 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: IBD editorial writer

bookmark


8 posted on 07/21/2015 5:39:46 AM PDT by charlie72
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To: b4its2late

Isn’t Medicaid single payer? It’s all confusing.


9 posted on 07/21/2015 5:52:11 AM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: PGR88

Not for long they don’t. And they won’t.


10 posted on 07/21/2015 6:05:22 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: ncpatriot

Yes, and we are all being slowly herded into it.


11 posted on 07/21/2015 6:06:10 AM PDT by Lorianne
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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.


12 posted on 07/21/2015 6:20:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: PGR88
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.

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.


13 posted on 07/21/2015 6:22:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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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???


14 posted on 07/21/2015 6:32:27 AM PDT by OK_Sam (OK_Sam)
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... and we thought we were getting "free" health care?...


15 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)
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To: PGR88

Some have already said “enough” of that crap.


16 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)
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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.


17 posted on 07/21/2015 9:17:45 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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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.


18 posted on 07/21/2015 12:05:16 PM PDT by EVO X
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