Alaska to accept Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion

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“Thousands of Alaskans and more than 150 organizations, including chambers of commerce, local hospitals, and local governments, have been waiting long enough for Medicaid expansion. It’s time to expand Medicaid so thousands of our friends, coworkers, neighbors, and family members don’t have to make the choice between health care or bankruptcy.” ~ Alaska Governor - Bill Walker
Quote excerpted from:
Alaska Governor Sidesteps GOP-Controlled Legislature, Expands Medicaid On His Own
by Tara Culp-Ressler
Jul 16, 2015 3:33pm

Republican controlled Tennessee, Wyoming and Utah as well as Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Iowa are also on the verge of helping millions of their constituents get access to preemptive healthcare instead waiting for more expensive emergency room visits.

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[Stephanie]

lol, stinkprogress

I'll find out from my family who stills there....after I left there in 2008 and lived there for Fifteen years

 

[The Rabbi]

The expansion has wreacked havoc in Kentucky. It will in Alaska too. Tennessee wisely declined this honey trap.

 

[Claudette]

The expansion has wreacked havoc in Kentucky. It will in Alaska too. Tennessee wisely declined this honey trap.

So has Florida. What the States don't seem to realize is that the Fed ain't going to continue to fund Medicaid for that POS Obamacare.

When they cease sending the Fed money the State will have to pick up the cost.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Kentucky has benefited from ACA, TN and FL missed out, and Alaska will reap its benefits. Stay in reality,TheRabbi.

 

[g5000]

lol, stinkprogress

I'll find out from my family who stills there....after I left there in 2008 and lived there for Fifteen years

You really don't have a shred of critical thinking skills, do you.

A rhetorical question.

Here's the horse's mouth: Alaska Governor Bill Walker
NEXT STEPS ON MEDICAID EXPANSION ANNOUNCED

 

[g5000]

The expansion has wreacked havoc in Kentucky.

Link?

 

[g5000]

Kentucky examines Medicaid expansion s effects

"Kentucky did see more enrollment than they anticipated," said Robin Rudowitz, associate director for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.

That was the main driver behind a sharp drop in Kentucky's uninsured rate, which fell from 20 percent in 2013 to less than 12 percent in 2014, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. Many of the uninsured in the past put off care, leading to acute illnesses and high costs.

But already there are some initial signs of the expansion's impact, he has said. Last November, Beshear reported that from July 2013 to July 2014, 3,000 jobs were added in core health care services, and 8,000 jobs added in administrative and support services.

In addition, he said, indigent care costs were dropping and total health care revenues and payments were up 13 percent. And among Medicaid recipients, preventative health visits such as well visits and flu shots rose almost 37 percent from a year earlier, he said.

More insured, indigent costs dropping, more jobs.

Rabbi must have a funny definition of "havoc".

 

[JakeStarkey]

He has none. KY has a happy population concerning ACA.

 

[g5000]

"In February 2015, Kentucky released a report it had commissioned Deloitte to conduct and analysis of the impact of the first-year impact of the Medicaid expansion on Kentucky and to estimate the potential future impact. Using data from a number of sources, including the data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (the state Medicaid agency), Aon Consulting (the state’s Medicaid actuary), and the Urban Studies Institute at the University of Louisville, the study provided point-in-time analysis of the impact across multiple areas – including the impact on Medicaid enrollment, the state’s uninsured rate, the state’s economy, it’s budget, the overall health care system and providers, and access to care for state residents. In terms of the effect on the state’s budget and economy, the study estimated that the Medicaid expansion will have a significant positive cumulative impact of $30.1 billion on Kentucky’s economy through SFY 2021; the net difference between expanding and not expanding Medicaid is estimated to be a positive $919.1 million from SFY 2014 through SFY 2021."

The Effects of the Medicaid Expansion on State Budgets An Early Look in Select States Appendix D 8703 The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

 

[g5000]

http://kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-Stream.aspx?viewMode=ViewDetailInNewPage&eventID={97DA58DC-A167-4B3B-9B18-7C1E2CA79C88}&activityType=PressRelease

New Deloitte study confirms that expansion is ‘overwhelming’ right choice; generates more than enough funding to pay for Kentucky’s eventual costs

Kentucky’s decision to expand the Medicaid program is paying enormous dividends in terms of jobs, economic growth, and improved health for the more than 375,000 Kentuckians who signed up last year – and according to a new study, those benefits will continue to accrue.

That's some havoc!

 

[g5000]

Tennessee wisely declined this honey trap.

Yeah, it sucks to have more jobs, economic growth, and improved health like Kentucky. Fuck that shit!

 

[LoneLaugher]

Where in the fuck did the Rabbi go?

 

[Claudette]

He has none. KY has a happy population concerning ACA.

Sure and how many of them are being subsidized by we the taxpayer??

Works great when some one else is paying the bill namely the taxpayers of America via Mecicaid. Hope they are ready in Kentucky when the Feds stop sending the money.

 

[g5000]

He has none. KY has a happy population concerning ACA.

Sure and how many of them are being subsidized by we the taxpayer??

Works great when some one else is paying the bill namely the taxpayers of America via Mecicaid. Hope they are ready in Kentucky when the Feds stop sending the money.

You need to read the links I provided.

"...generates more than enough funding to pay for Kentucky’s eventual costs".

 

[g5000]

The taxpayers have been paying for the healthcare of indigents already. The Kentucky study has shown ObamaCare has REDUCED the cost of indigent health care.

And that means taxpayers are paying LESS.

$30 billion less.

And it has created jobs.

 

[Claudette]

Yeah sure.

ObamaCare Medicaid Expansion is one of the biggest milestones in health care reform. ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion expands Medicaid to our nation’s poorest in order cover nearly half of uninsured Americans. However, a change to the law will leave millions of working families without coverage by 2016

Sounds like a winner to me. Another yoke around the neck of the American taxpayer.

 

[JakeStarkey]

He has none. KY has a happy population concerning ACA.

Sure and how many of them are being subsidized by we the taxpayer??

Works great when some one else is paying the bill namely the taxpayers of America via Mecicaid. Hope they are ready in Kentucky when the Feds stop sending the money.

You are under the impression that taking care of the poor, and the ill, and the lame, and the crazy is not the responsibility of all of us. You are wrong.

 

[JakeStarkey]

He has none. KY has a happy population concerning ACA.

Sure and how many of them are being subsidized by we the taxpayer??

Works great when some one else is paying the bill namely the taxpayers of America via Mecicaid. Hope they are ready in Kentucky when the Feds stop sending the money.

You are under the impression that taking care of the poor, and the ill, and the lame, and the crazy is not the responsibility of all of us. You are wrong.

If the GOP would get on Board in Congress with this, everyone could be covered for less. We don't even have a program, other than free market forces can do it, when in fact they did not.

 

[g5000]

Yeah sure.

If that is the best retort you can come up with in the face of the facts, I guess my work is done here.