My comment on the WP article:
Comrades, do not listen to capitalist stooge Sarah Cliff. By next 5-year plan, Obamacare will be smashing health care records like today in glorious workers’ paradises Cuba and in Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. This shall be happy new reality after last dying breath of so-called “free market” capitalist insurance corporations, according to plan as laid out by Dear Leader Obama in speech of 2003 to labor unions. Step by step, comrades, steady on course, forward to victory! Of course today capitalist saboteurs and wreckers are slandering glorious plan of Dear Leader Obama. Do not worry, comrades, with unceasing efforts of commissars day and night in IRS-NSA-ACA data hubs, soon State Security Services shall expose all reactionary so-called “tea party” traitors. After these decaying worms are pulled from glorious socialist soil, happy new day of equal health care rationing for all will result, as in best years of former Soviet Union!
Those states who had the sense to say “no” to the Medicaid expansion will come out as the smart ones.
When folks sign up and see the “sticker shock” they’ll soon be relieved to be amazingly qualify for Medicaid. Medicaid rolls will expand big time.
Those states who accepted Medicaid expansion will soon find their 90/10 obligation skyrocket. When the feds back out of the deal (which they will) those states will be left holding the bag.
Suckers!!!!
Fauver said. "We're extremely thrilled about that, and expect the number to go up in coming weeks."
Good grief.
Free has always been a big seller.
So, let me see if I've got this right:
The state has signed up 56,000 people for Medicaid expansion. They will pay nothing, or virtually nothing, for this "insurance". The program is temporarily funded 90/10 federal/state. In three years, the feds stop making their contribution and the entire burden shifts to the Oregon taxpayers.
And Oregon and the Washington Post are celebrating this?
Thousands more at the trough, and still nobody putting anything more into the trough.
This is a disaster.
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The taxpayer/voters of Oregon (and Maryland, which is reporting the same fantastic success in signing up taxpayer-funded Medicaid clients) deserve what they’re going to get......