Merrill Goozner in The Health Care Blog:
Many states – often the same ones that oppose the Medicaid expansion – insure a relatively low proportion of their Medicaid-eligible residents by doing a poor job of outreach. Advocates sometimes accuse these states of deliberately trying to hold down their own costs at the expense of the poor.
A federalized Medicaid program that successfully reached into all corners of the country like Medicare would come much closer to providing universal coverage than what even Obamacare contemplates. But it would cost a lot more, too.
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Of course free rides for anyone who wants a free ride will cost more. Our government is dead set on buying the votes of as many people as possible with these free rides. The more that our money is confiscated in taxes and redistributed to those who love it and refuse to pay for themselves, the less the rest of us will be able to use that money to grow our businesses, pay employees who do work hard for their money, and build a future for our children.
Medicaid for all will bankrupt us as surely as Europe is bankrupt now for doing the same thing. If you want people to have affordable health care, let them pay for it using their own money or with money voluntarily donated through charities. Putting our whole country on the dole spends our children’s inheritance for the sake of greedy people who will never be satiated in their demands for free stuff.
There is not enough money in the world to pay for people who think that getting their personal needs paid for by others is a right. We know that very well, so why are we so insistent on doing something that will no doubt kill our country and our future?