This is the type of thing that makes me worry a bit about what will happen if (IMHO it’s WHEN instead of IF) the Supreme Court rules for the plaintiffs in the suit challenging Obamacare taxes (and therefore the linked subsidies) in Federal exchange only states. I expect that ruling in favor of the plaintiffs in June 2015.
Will Republican governors and Republican state legislators allow Obamacare to largely wither and die (as they should in the lead up to the critical 2016 election) or will they move to set up state exchanges? I fear what the answer may be in some states.
So they still hate Obamacare but are warming up to the federal Medicaid dollars. The hypocrisy is positively nauseating.
People do not see it, but this is why the Federal Reserve, our fiat currency and centrally-controlled interest rates are the foundation of progressive government. The US debt is $18 trillion, even in the 6th year of "economic recovery" the deficit is still $483 billion. The Fed is sitting on $5 Trillion of monetized US Government debt and low interest rates allow Wall Street and the world to buy even more.
The upshot is the Federal Government can ALWAYS find more money to expand its reach and to bribe governors with promises of bigger budgets (and votes). Free money is a better weapon than even guns, and conservative values will always lose to the huge Federal sugar-daddy in the end.
TN GOP Governor Announces Plan to Expand Obamacare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3237476/posts
Obama had Haslam’s privates in a vice over the scam Pilot gas stations was running not passing rebates along. His brother Jimmy owns Browns. Criminal investigation. Had to please the Emperor and Prince Holder to make it go away.
These governors are risking a huge burden to taxpayers.
So far, the estimates of people who would sign up for Medicaid expansion have been grossly underestimated compared to those who actually have.
If the SCOTUS rules that federal subsidies are illegal in states that did not enact their own exchanges, many more will be dumped into Medicaid.