[napscoordinator]

This is so stupid. They should have just put those original 36 million without insurance on the Medicaid program. Believe it or not, it would have saved us money in the long run after this monstrosity.

[ClearCase_guy]

The goal was never to save money.
The goal was never to provide healthcare.
The goal was never to help the poor.

The goal is control, and it’s all working out perfectly.

[Ueriah]

Personally, I think that the goal is to force lots of people onto Medicaid in an attempt to bankrupt the states and make them more dependant on the Federal Government.

[Graybeard58]

This is so stupid. They should have just put those original 36 million without insurance on the Medicaid program. Believe it or not, it would have saved us money in the long run after this monstrosity.

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.

[Let_It_Be_So]

“This is so stupid. They should have just put those original 36 million without insurance on the Medicaid program.”

First, I doubt the 36M figure is a valid number and even if it was, a good percentage of that number were people who chose to not buy insurance. The number of people who wanted insurance and couldn’t get it was quite small and THAT group could have been added to an expanded Medicaid program, imo.

Secondly, I agree with you and a variation of this (expanding Medicaid) was part of the Republicans’ proposed alternative to Obamacare when it was being debated in Congress...only to be summarily dismissed/ignored by the democrats in control of both houses of Congress at the time,iirc.