GOP Governors Forming Plan to Keep Obama Medicaid Expansion

[NYcarbineer]

"A group of Republican governors is preparing a compromise plan for their peers in Congress who want to roll back Obamacare’s Medicaid benefits, asking them to preserve the law’s expansion of coverage to millions of poor people.

The compromise proposal has been initiated by a group including Ohio Governor John Kasich and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and would hold on to parts of the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of the program. It’s meant to satisfy Republican goals of repealing Obamacare and giving more control of Medicaid to the states, while also maintaining coverage of people such as childless adults and those just above the poverty level. It would also open the door for states such as Wisconsin to broaden Medicaid eligibility."

See? The far right thinks that electing Republican majorities/governors at the state level is some sort of vindication of the madness that is the far right.

Truth is, as the above story demonstrates, it's just more proof that the RINOs really run the GOP at the state and local level.

GOP Governors Forming Plan to Keep Obama Medicaid Expansion

 

[TooTall]

"A group of Republican governors is preparing a compromise plan for their peers in Congress who want to roll back Obamacare’s Medicaid benefits, asking them to preserve the law’s expansion of coverage to millions of poor people.

The compromise proposal has been initiated by a group including Ohio Governor John Kasich and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and would hold on to parts of the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of the program. It’s meant to satisfy Republican goals of repealing Obamacare and giving more control of Medicaid to the states, while also maintaining coverage of people such as childless adults and those just above the poverty level. It would also open the door for states such as Wisconsin to broaden Medicaid eligibility."

See? The far right thinks that electing Republican majorities/governors at the state level is some sort of vindication of the madness that is the far right.

Truth is, as the above story demonstrates, it's just more proof that the RINOs really run the GOP at the state and local level.

GOP Governors Forming Plan to Keep Obama Medicaid Expansion

Excerpts from the linked article.

Health Care: For a while, states that had expanded their Medicaid programs under ObamaCare were bragging about how much money it was saving them. Then reality struck.

ObamaCare made an offer few states could refuse: Expand Medicaid eligibility to 138% of poverty — including able-bodied, childless adults — and the federal government will cover 100% of the costs for three years. (The federal government pays 50% of the existing costs of Medicaid.)

As a result, 32 states decided to expand their Medicaid programs.

Now these states are coming to realize that they grabbed the short end of the ObamaCare stick — as costs are vastly outpacing expectations.

A new report from the conservative Foundation for Government Accountability finds that enrollment in Medicaid expansion states is far higher than projected.

It found that the 24 states that made enrollment projections before expanding their programs expected 5.5 million newly eligible people to sign up with Medicaid. The latest data available show that more than 11.5 million did so.

Not only are enrollment figures higher than expected, a report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that per-enrollee costs for newly eligible people were 49% higher than expected.

The problem could be rendered moot by the incoming Trump administration and Republican Congress. An ObamaCare replacement plan put forward by House Republicans would block any new state from expanding Medicaid, and would transition all states off the current federal matching-grant financing scheme to one of fixed annual grants.

The idea is to give states more flexibility, but also make them more responsible for how they spend their health care dollars. It's hard to see how this could be worse than the current budget-busting system.

States Discover The High Cost Of ObamaCare's 'Free' Medicaid Expansion

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Nothing is stopping any of these states from implementing their own Marxist health care program if that's what they want, but there is no reason for me to pay for it via the federal government on their behalf.