I suggested that it might have been cheaper, a couple of weeks ago and was castigated for it. Not that medicaid would have been better or that medicaid is a good thing, just that it would have been cheaper.
Not just cheaper. It would have been a lot cheaper. The vast majority of people without coverage do so by choice because they are healthy and have minimal health care costs. If they aren’t going to the doctor now, they won’t go when they have Medicaid either.
Only cheaper in the immediate as compared to the money wasted by the child king. As the uninsured were across the spectrum on income, you would get twice as many at the trough the next year.
The cheapest and most effective plan would be for the federal government to exit healthcare stage right.