Arizona Medicaid Expansion

[J.E.D]

Another GOP Gov Folds

Arizona Medicaid Expansion Advances After Jan Brewer Forces Lawmakers' Hands

Arizona will expand Medicaid to cover nearly 300,000 poor residents next year after a bipartisan coalition passed a measure backed by Gov. Jan Brewer (R) through the state legislature on Thursday.

Brewer, a conservative and avowed foe of President Barack Obama's health care reform law, announced her support for the Medicaid expansion in January, but faced stiff resistance from fellow Republicans in Arizona's House and Senate. During a marathon session that began Wednesday afternoon and stretched into the wee hours of Thursday morning before culminating in a final vote late Thursday afternoon, a handful of Republicans joined Democrats in the House and Senate to pass the Medicaid expansion.

Although Obama's health care law continues to divide elected officials and the public along starkly partisan lines, Brewer is one of nine Republican governors who have bucked their party and embraced the Medicaid expansion.

"With landmark votes today in the House and Senate, legislators have tackled the issue that is Job One every session -- adoption of a responsible State budget -- and enacted Arizona’s most sweeping health care legislation in decades," Brewer said in a news release after the vote Thursday. "It will extend cost-effective care to Arizona’s working poor, using the very tax dollars our citizens already pay to the federal government."

 

[Claudette]

Of course they are going to fold. They'd be stupid not to.

Of course the Fed money will only be available for a few years. After that the States will have to come up with the money. Of course the States will take it while its available.

Taxes will have to be raised and everyone will see just how much the ACA will cost. They will be "subsidizing" everyone who can't pay for they're own HC. Should be fun.

Yep. The ACA is going to be anything but affordable.

 

[J.E.D]

Tissue?

 

[Greenbeard]

Of course the Fed money will only be available for a few years. After that the States will have to come up with the money. Of course the States will take it while its available.

90% of the costs of the expansion are paid for with federal dollars, forever.

But yes, that percentage is even higher than that for the first several years.