As the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether ObamaCare’s expansion of Medicaid is constitutional, here’s another question: Why is Medicaid a state program and not funded by the federal government like Medicare? Answer: I don’t know.
Meanwhile, here is a nice summary of the arguments on both sides of the legal debate over the Medicaid expansion, plus a Bloomberg article outlining the potential impact on Medicaid health plans. A further analysis appears in the January 2012 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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How nice for Obamacare to hand out free health care and make others pay for it – states, taxpayers, insurers, employers, rich folks, anybody who has cash or can raise cash. All Obamacare has to do is make free health care for certain privileged groups a Federal law and this free health care “magically” appears.
How nice of our political elite to declare more and more of our citizens indigent so that they may join the growing ranks of those on the government dole. With so many getting so much free stuff, they must keep voting for the same corrupting politicians to keep this free stuff coming. Obviously, nobody in Washington cares a fig for what happens to the states.
Watch our states crash and burn under the burden of this magnificent gift of our Federal government to cherished voters. When our states decide to secede from the Union to get out from under the tyranny of Washington, I will start working on my rebel yell.