Obama Administration Tries To Blackmail States Into Expanding Obamacare

Forbes ^ | May 13, 2015 | By Jonathan Ingram and Josh Archambault

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Obama administration has worked for years to lure states into accepting Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion under the false promise of “flexibility.” Despite its best efforts, 21 states have rejected the expansion. And at least two states that previously expanded Medicaid under Obamacare are looking to turn back the clock and draw down their Medicaid expansions in 2016.

The Obama administration is desperate for a national leader like Florida to expand Obamacare, hoping it will set off a chain reaction to convince leaders in other states to fall in line. So, frustrated with its lack of success in convincing conservatives to give up their principled opposition to Obamacare, the administration has moved on to a new tactic: Sopranos-style blackmail.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Mr. Ingram is research director, and Mr. Archambault a senior fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability.

[gingerbread]

This is all “SMOKE & MIRRORS”. This administration already knows that should SCOTUS declare that government helping those states that didn’t sign up for OBAMA CARE will still be afforded the money to make OBAMA CARE possible. Should that happen, these “SPINELESS WHORES” in our government will pass a bill to make OBAMA CARE viable, until the next election.

[Lorianne]

Last month, Obama officials sent a letter to Florida’s Medicaid agency, warning that it may not reauthorize $2.2 billion in unrelated Medicaid funding unless the state agrees to expand Obamacare.

Wasn't this tried in the beginning and the Supreme Court struck it down? The original Obamacare said that if a State did not expand Medicaid they would lose their existing Medicaid federal grants. The SC said no way, you can't do that. This is how we got the SC decision that State's could opt out of the Medicaid Expansion portion of Obamacare.

I'm not understanding how they can do the same thing that was already struck down by the Supreme Court. That said, I wish some States would opt out of Federal Medicaid altogether or any Federal money. It's NOT free money coming from the Fed. The money comes from people living in the States to begin with. It makes me want to scream when they act like it's free money that the Federal government has growing on a Federal money tree somewhere and they are generously going to pass it around.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I am glad some states like Florida are pushing back because the spineless wimps in DC are about as useless as teats on a bull...
Freegards
LEX

[PGalt]

OUT-OF-CONTROL executive branch v. states? Check$ and Balance$. Just what the founders had in mind. /sarc

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/Executive.shtml

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/Independent.shtml

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/Boards.shtml

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/Quasi-Official.shtml

And the latest UNaccountable bureaucracy neatly parked inside FED RES…

http://www.consumerfinance.gov/you-have-the-right/?gclid=CLS5yeX1vsUCFZE1aQodKi4AEw

BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM

Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat

http://www.usdebtclock.org

Debt-slaves unite!

DEPOPULATE slavemasters/socialists from the body politic. DISMANTLE their architecture.

[Pietro]

What this article points out more than anything else is that gov involvement in health care is the primary reason health care is such an expensive mess.

[Hardens Hollow]

“I’m not understanding how they can do the same thing that was already struck down by the Supreme Court.”

Obama pretends there is only one branch of government.