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ObamaCare Created a Medicaid Time Bomb
New York Post ^ | December 7, 2013 | Michael D. Tanner

Posted on 12/09/2013 5:27:22 AM PST by lbryce

The good news, if you want to call it that, is that roughly 1.6 million Americans have enrolled in ObamaCare so far.

The not-so-good news is that 1.46 million of them actually signed up for Medicaid. If that trend continues, it could bankrupt both federal and state governments.

Medicaid is already America’s third-largest government program, trailing only Social Security and Medicare, as a proportion of the federal budget. Almost 8 cents out of every dollar that the federal government spends goes to Medicaid. That’s more than $265 billion per year.

Indeed, already Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid account for 48% of federal spending. Within the next few years, those three programs will eat up more than half of federal expenditures.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; exchanges; medicaid; medicaidexpansion; societalimplosion
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Reading this article has really hit home to me in a way I hadn't seen or felt before. I'm hypothesizing about what possibly lurks right over the horizon, and the sense I'm feeling has begun seeping down into my very soul in a way that has resonated a realization within me just exactly what this entity, Zero, is facilitating right before our very eyes. I'm seeing how it is quite possible, the possibility of it has a palpable sense of reality about it, how our worst fears coming to fruition.

Ya know, I'm just sayin'.

There is a sense of how people have absolutely no idea at the sort of absolute catstrophic implosion of negative energy that will ignite with exponential effect, all of which being generated on every level, in every sector, category, aspect of life, living.

Each individual specific aspect of our society, life, living, be it the federal budget, economy, crime, health care, medicare, education, institutions of higher learning, massive public and private debt,retirement, pensions, military, our crumbling infrastructure, the vulnerability of the electric grid, internet, government from the local to federal perspective, so on and so on, each and every individual categgory, sub-category is approaching catastrophic levels of utter dystopian disaster, that once begins to snowball will usher in an era of extinction not seen in 65 million years.

And just as clueless and totally unprepared, even for the most sophisticated of Preppers, as was all life the last time an event of such overwhelming chaos and destruction unraveled, so it is as I see the reality of it becoming more real with every passing day in the "Zero" Hour, of events being ignited, energy building up, like what occurs during an earth quake, two land masses coming into contact with each other at it weakest point, the destructive energy created via the process of plate tectonics continuously building up beyond the point of tolerance and like some giant rubber band expands beyond its capacity, snapping back in unleashing all the stored up energy and desructiveness to exponential effect.

What Obama is doing is pushing the system, all of us, beyond the point of tolerance, when every varied, far-flung aspect of our society is being put in harm's way, in every way, skating on the thinnest of existential ice, the pent up energy is going to materialize like nothing the world has every seen.

But yet on the other hand......

1 posted on 12/09/2013 5:27:22 AM PST by lbryce
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2 posted on 12/09/2013 5:32:10 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy


3 posted on 12/09/2013 5:33:22 AM PST by HangnJudge
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It would have been cheaper just to buy Blue Cross & BS insurance for the people that did not have it.


4 posted on 12/09/2013 5:49:24 AM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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By the way they will save a lot of the cost of Medicare with the Death panels.

Also people dying earlier because of Obamacare will cut down on Social Security too.


5 posted on 12/09/2013 5:50:44 AM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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GO AHEAD---DISCUSS THIS AROUND THE HOLIDAY TABLE

Boobamba's got plans.....secret, nefarious plans for grampa/ma duped into Medicare/Aid. The BOOB can't get 'em to sign up on the flopola healthcare.guv website---so he's throwing hundreds of thousands onto MEDICAID------and all the costs of medical care will be charged back.

How can he do that? By slapping federal and state LIENS against signers' homes, and other assets. NOTE that the Obamacare con artists eliminated the ASSET TEST, (which would have prevented those with assets to even be considered for Medicaid coverage.

So those who now think, "Golly gee, my government loves me, Obama says I qualify for subsidized Medicaid care, I'll be well- taken care of"---have been suckered into a REVERSE ASSET LIQUIDATION FEDERAL MONEY GRAB......And, once in the hands of the Obama Chicago criminal hordes, all that money is untraceable.

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Obamacare con artists eliminated the ASSET TEST, (which would have prevented those with assets to even be considered for Medicaid coverage). Every person herded onto Medicaid signed away their entire estate to the govt. Heirs get nothing---everything goes to the state to re-coup the expenses incurred under Medicaid. The Obama criminals duped people into a reverse mortgage scheme......

Here's how it works.

The Obama con artists herded seniors WITH ASSETS onto Medicaid---a program specifically structured for the poor.

Herding sickly elderly with assets into Medicaid has ominous consequences intriguing to sap-happy leftists. B/c assets, perhaps a home owned free and clear, securities, annuities, investment property, can be seized to pay for govt treatment.

Thus intergenerational transfers of wealth (a longtime liberal/progressive bugaboo)----are decimated.

Can you say redistribution of wealth?

6 posted on 12/09/2013 5:55:51 AM PST by Liz
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Right. What happens when the money just runs out. No more ability to be seen, anywhere, by anyone. These people will just be on their own ...going to witchdoctors, or free standing urgent care centers, expecting cancer treatments, heart surgeries, brain surgeries ...you name it.

It’s going to be so bad, I just can’t even imagine it.

It will happen suddenly, or it may also just be a slow drip — he’ll get rid of the weakest first ...the very ones who voted him and supported him and propped him up all these years.

He’s a really evil sunofab*tch, that’s for sure. They all are.


7 posted on 12/09/2013 5:57:28 AM PST by LibsRJerks
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To: lbryce
the sense I'm feeling has begun seeping down into my very soul
Don't feel alone. I think that a large part of the population is getting a real bad feeling about what the future holds. The Tea Party may have been prescient, but many others are worried. On Maslow's hierarchy of needs social and esteem needs come after physical and security needs are satisfied. ObamaCare assumes the social need of caring for one another will drive it to success but if in the process large numbers of people are made to feel insecure and, as has already happened, have their physical needs not satisfied when they are thrown off insurance that is paying for current medical procedures things are going to get real (I don't know what the right term is but medieval comes to mind). We already have flash mobs, the knockout game, IRS Sheriff of Notingham intrusive audits, the federal government buying up billions of rounds of ammo, MRAP armored vehicles being given to local law enforcement, and... well I need to stop and catch my breath. Yep, I agree with you, the realization of what Obama has wrought is certainly palpable. God save the United States of America.
8 posted on 12/09/2013 5:58:27 AM PST by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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1.46 million Americans just signed over their entire estate over to the govt upon their death. The heirs and children get zero, zero, decimal, zero.

Google: “medicaid+after+you+die”

Medicaid is a reverse mortage on steroids and crack.


9 posted on 12/09/2013 6:06:05 AM PST by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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Thank you for your kind, considerate words of support, understanding. Having you agree with me is a mixed blessing of sorts. I've said it in an irreverent, self-deprecating way, the sort of mixed feelings you get when you watch your mother-in-law drive over the cliff in your new Mercedes.

I very much appreciate you agreeing with me but it's regarding a matter, saying it merely to be whimsical, that I'd prefer being alone in my paranoia. As Henry Kissinger has been quoted to say, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not following you. :-)

10 posted on 12/09/2013 6:17:50 AM PST by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: LibsRJerks

Perhaps they will form an Army of the terminally ill and invade Capitol Hill and do the rest of us a favor.


11 posted on 12/09/2013 6:18:20 AM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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One sixth of the U.S. economy was forever altered with the imperative that 30 million people had to be covered.

There are estimates that, after next year, over 100 million will have their existing policies canceled.

Of the purported 30 million that did not have coverage, what guarantee is there that any of them will avail themselves of Nobamacare options? Some will qualify for Medicaid and subsidies, but others will not and will just pay the penalty.

Of the 100 million that lose their current policies, who knows how many will purchase another policy. Many of those will probably just pay the penalty because they can’t afford the premiums.

So the 30 million we HAD to pass the bill for will balloon into several times that.

Democrats will not claim any responsibility as they are never held accountable because “their intentions were good”.

The next step toward single payer will be proposed by Democrats - that of expanding Medicaid to cover all those who were “left out of life’s lottery with Nobamacare”.

Final solution almost accomplished.


12 posted on 12/09/2013 6:25:33 AM PST by randita
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BINGO!.....................but that would not have been part of the agenda..................


13 posted on 12/09/2013 6:26:45 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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I wrote a similar conclusion a while ago. The states and feds will be overwhelmed with Medicaid cases................


14 posted on 12/09/2013 6:27:51 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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When you see such ineptitude at the highest levels-among what are supposed to be the “brightest and best” among us, it raises suspicions that it must be cunning and purposeful.

They can’t be this stupid and incompetent for real - or can they?


15 posted on 12/09/2013 6:28:13 AM PST by randita
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To: Liz
How can he do that? By slapping federal and state LIENS against signers' homes, and other assets.

Su casa es MI casa........................

16 posted on 12/09/2013 6:28:45 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: lbryce

The Road To Obamunism


17 posted on 12/09/2013 6:35:58 AM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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To: randita
The next step toward single payer will be proposed by Democrats - that of expanding Medicaid to cover all those who were “left out of life’s lottery with Nobamacare”.

And whose death will be the government windfall. To put a finer point on it: these newly-minted Medicaid "beneficiaries," if you think about it, are trading the sum total of their personal value for insurance that, should it ultimately deliver any health care services at all, is of the poorest quality which would make the third world blush.

And further they have no choice in the matter-- they are coerced into this arrangement by Obamacare. Once they are expired the government shall then claim their assets as their own.

What was it that Oprah said again about a certain generation? Forward.

18 posted on 12/09/2013 6:47:14 AM PST by Dysart (Obamacare: "We are losing money on every subscriber-- but we will make it up in volume!")
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It’s going to be so bad, I just can’t even imagine it.

Ha...just see how it works in the UK....

And just wait till they start issuing orders to the doctors to match client with the care required....and prescriptions....don't forget all those complex prescription orders.

I see not just amputations on the wrong limb....but on the wrong patient.

and don't expect quick response for a broken arm:

And so you have an acute appendix....?

Mark Wattson, 35, from Swindon may have been the victim of botched surgery after he had to have his appendix removed twice

To his shock, surgeons from the same team told him that not only was his appendix still inside him, but it had ruptured - a potentially fatal complication.

In a second operation it was finally removed, leaving Mr Wattson fearing another organ might have been taken out during the first procedure.

The blunder has left Mr Wattson jobless, as bosses at the shop where he worked did not believe his story and sacked him.

Mr Wattson told of the moment he realised there had been a serious mistake.

'I was lying on a stretcher in terrible pain and a doctor came up to me and said that my appendix had burst,' he said.

'I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I told these people I had my appendix out just four weeks earlier but there it was on the scanner screen for all to see.

'I thought, "What the hell did they slice me open for in the first place?"

'I feel that if the surgery had been done correctly in the first place I wouldn't be in the mess I am today. I'm disgusted by the whole experience.'

Mr Wattson first went under the knife on July 7 after experiencing severe abdominal pain for several weeks. He was discharged but exactly a month later he had to dial 999 after collapsing in agony. Mr Wattson

Mr Wattson was readmitted to the Great Western Hospital in Swindon after his appendix ruptured.

Nurse will see you now

130,000 elderly patients killed every year by ‘death pathway’, claims leading UK doctor

by Thaddeus Baklinski Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:02 EST Tags: euthanasia, patrick pullicino, uk

LONDON, June 21, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An eminent British doctor told a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine in London that every year 130,000 elderly patients that die while under the care of the National Health Service (NHS) have been effectively euthanized by being put on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), a protocol for care of the terminally ill that he described as a “death pathway.”

Sit back and enjoy your Obamacare.

19 posted on 12/09/2013 6:52:38 AM PST by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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Perhaps they will form an Army of the terminally ill and invade Capitol Hill and do the rest of us a favor.

Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose. If you're going to die, might as well take some of those sons-a-bitches with ya.
20 posted on 12/09/2013 7:15:10 AM PST by Old Yeller (America: Under Iranian hostage since Jan. 20, 2008.)
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