Posted on 11/23/2013 6:44:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Local sheriffs will wait for more clear direction before implementing a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandate to sign up all inmates into Medicaid plans via the federal health insurance exchange.
Bureau County Sheriff John Thompson said he received notification from 13th Judicial Chief Judge H. Chris Ryan Jr. through his Circuit Judge Marc Bernabei that all sheriffs within the judicial district are obligated to enroll inmates into health care plans offered on the federal exchange as mandated by Obamacare. The judicial district includes La Salle, Bureau and Grundy counties. Thompson said he has contacted an ACA specialist but was told not to enroll anyone who is incarcerated....
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I see Medicaid paying for a rash of sex change operations.
Voter Registration is probably the only part of the system that actually works.
Will Holders People get more Medicaid for each time they vote?
China and Russia are watching and LOL as we destroy ourselves from within!
You look at this and that poor kid with cancer in Gainesville and it’s just disgusting.
I’d call it amateur hour but that would be an insult to amateurs.
The gift that keeps on giving.
Don’t tell me. One of the as-yet-to-be-written mandates will prescribe early release as a medical treatment.
I’m as serious as a heart attack.
Does anyone still think employers won’t be dumping everyone into an exchange next year? The lucky ones will get a sign off bonus.
I think this will undermine the inmate’s constitutional rights! Even if they have very few left after being imprisoned having to apply for Obamacare will erode the remaining ones.
I am betting that that forcing Obamacare onto inmates will be ruled cruel and unusual punishment! Seriously, I think that most inmate care is much better than what they will receive under Obamacare.
Another natural Dem constituency getting the shaft.
Don’t forget to register them for SNAP while you’re at it. And SSI. And anything else you can think of.
If you really need medical care and have no money, Rob a bank and get arrested.
An ongoing Democrat dream: Captive audiences
Well this sounds like a liberal vs. liberal cat fight (with the jailers caught in the middle).
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