Trump’s Big Medicaid Cuts Are About to Get Very Real

[Crepitus]

Save yourself the heartburn...
Generalization is the mother of embarrassment.....

It's not always US VERSUS YOU ( INSERT PRONOUN).....

Generally I would agree with you but it think for the upcoming midterms it's a case of "with us or against us" from both sides of the aisle.

 

[jacksonlamb]

Millions of Americans have come view the GOP through the increases for Medicaid, Medicare, ACA, threats to VA, and the 25% increase in medical insurance.

The reaction is not pretty. GOPPers, it is called "affordability" and will vote accordingly.

 

[Concerned American]

Millions of Americans have come view the GOP through the increases for Medicaid, Medicare, ACA, threats to VA, and the 25% increase in medical insurance.

The reaction is not pretty. GOPPers, it is called "affordability" and will vote accordingly.

the ACA Medicaid expansion in Nebraska has increased Medicaid costs, with expenses rising from approximately $52.9 million in 2021 to $103 million in 2023. This growth in spending has raised concerns about the state's ability to manage other essential government functions.
kios.org Wikipedia

 

[Oddball]

OMAHA, NEBRASKA HAS BEEN BUSTLING with activity these past few days thanks to the annual Berkshire Hathaway weekend, when tens of thousands of investors from around the world gather to hobnob with Warren Buffett while they figure out how to maximize their portfolios.

But inside one office, a woman named Amy Behnke has been preoccupied with something very different and much more urgent. She has been furiously working the phones with state officials, trying to figure out how to keep some of Nebraska’s poorest residents from losing their health insurance.

Behnke is CEO of the Nebraska Health Center Association, which represents clinics that provide care to the state’s underserved population. Since 2020, she tells me, the percentage of total patients showing up to member clinics with no insurance at all—the ones who represent the biggest drain on clinic finances—has dropped from half to one-third.

That’s a sign of progress, and it’s no mystery what’s behind it. In October 2020, Nebraska officially became part of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. By taking advantage of federal funding that the state’s GOP officials had long refused—but that voters eventually approved via ballot measure—Nebraska was able to open up its program to any citizen or qualifying legal resident with income below 138 percent of the federal poverty line.

Trump’s Big Medicaid Cuts Are About to Get Very Real

Nebraska will be the first test of how many people lose insurance—and who they are.

www.thebulwark.com

It seems trump devotees who avail themselves of Medicaid coverage are going to be in for another rude, trumpian awakening. Added to the list of awakenings like the cost of living, the price of gas, and a war with Iran with no apparent end in sight. All things they were promised not to have to deal with if they just gave a self-interested, convicted criminal another chance to run the country. What could go wrong? Turns out, a lot.

Gubmint big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it away.

Too bad so sad.

 

[ThisIsMe]

OMAHA, NEBRASKA HAS BEEN BUSTLING with activity these past few days thanks to the annual Berkshire Hathaway weekend, when tens of thousands of investors from around the world gather to hobnob with Warren Buffett while they figure out how to maximize their portfolios.

But inside one office, a woman named Amy Behnke has been preoccupied with something very different and much more urgent. She has been furiously working the phones with state officials, trying to figure out how to keep some of Nebraska’s poorest residents from losing their health insurance.

Behnke is CEO of the Nebraska Health Center Association, which represents clinics that provide care to the state’s underserved population. Since 2020, she tells me, the percentage of total patients showing up to member clinics with no insurance at all—the ones who represent the biggest drain on clinic finances—has dropped from half to one-third.

That’s a sign of progress, and it’s no mystery what’s behind it. In October 2020, Nebraska officially became part of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. By taking advantage of federal funding that the state’s GOP officials had long refused—but that voters eventually approved via ballot measure—Nebraska was able to open up its program to any citizen or qualifying legal resident with income below 138 percent of the federal poverty line.

Trump’s Big Medicaid Cuts Are About to Get Very Real

Nebraska will be the first test of how many people lose insurance—and who they are.

www.thebulwark.com

It seems trump devotees who avail themselves of Medicaid coverage are going to be in for another rude, trumpian awakening. Added to the list of awakenings like the cost of living, the price of gas, and a war with Iran with no apparent end in sight. All things they were promised not to have to deal with if they just gave a self-interested, convicted criminal another chance to run the country. What could go wrong? Turns out, a lot.

Everyone needs healthcare, I get it, but you know what I didn’t hear in that article? The clinic trying to find ways to cut its prices. Sure, they’re all about trying to get more people on Obama care, because they can then gouge the government for whatever they want, which will have the knock on effect of causing healthcare costs to go up overall.

 

[jacksonlamb]

Gubmint big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it away.

Too bad so sad.

Our government has been able to do that since WWII. And Concerned American below is happy about it.

 

[Concerned American]

Our government has been able to do that since WWII.

And you advocate expanding that power? You're kinda speeeeecial aren't you?

 

[ThisIsMe]

The stupidity of voting for Trump; the stupidity of voting against one’s own interests.

Would we have been better off if a democrat had won, and we had 50 million new illegals and the government trying subsidize anything and everything for everyone?

 

[jacksonlamb]

And you advocate expanding that power? You're kinda speeeeecial aren't you?

Where do you come up with that. Trump is in power and expanding power.

 

[Oddball]

Our government has been able to do that since WWII. And Concerned American below is happy about it.

Medicaid has been around since WWII?

That's news to me.

 

[Concerned American]

Where do you come up with that. Trump is in power and expanding power.

You talk out both sides of your mouth.

 

[Concerned American]

Our government has been able to do that since WWII. And Concerned American below is happy about it.

Was Obama and the ACA around in WWII? Try again. BTW, as I posted about the cuts that you're whining about--when NE expanded medicaid to include the ACA -- it exploded the program from $53M to $103M which dragged all other gov't social programs down. Educate yourself and quit gaslighting, it doesn't work anymore.

 

[Rawley]

OMAHA, NEBRASKA HAS BEEN BUSTLING with activity these past few days thanks to the annual Berkshire Hathaway weekend, when tens of thousands of investors from around the world gather to hobnob with Warren Buffett while they figure out how to maximize their portfolios.

But inside one office, a woman named Amy Behnke has been preoccupied with something very different and much more urgent. She has been furiously working the phones with state officials, trying to figure out how to keep some of Nebraska’s poorest residents from losing their health insurance.

Behnke is CEO of the Nebraska Health Center Association, which represents clinics that provide care to the state’s underserved population. Since 2020, she tells me, the percentage of total patients showing up to member clinics with no insurance at all—the ones who represent the biggest drain on clinic finances—has dropped from half to one-third.

That’s a sign of progress, and it’s no mystery what’s behind it. In October 2020, Nebraska officially became part of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. By taking advantage of federal funding that the state’s GOP officials had long refused—but that voters eventually approved via ballot measure—Nebraska was able to open up its program to any citizen or qualifying legal resident with income below 138 percent of the federal poverty line.

Trump’s Big Medicaid Cuts Are About to Get Very Real

Nebraska will be the first test of how many people lose insurance—and who they are.

www.thebulwark.com

It seems trump devotees who avail themselves of Medicaid coverage are going to be in for another rude, trumpian awakening. Added to the list of awakenings like the cost of living, the price of gas, and a war with Iran with no apparent end in sight. All things they were promised not to have to deal with if they just gave a self-interested, convicted criminal another chance to run the country. What could go wrong? Turns out, a lot.

SImple solution. Able-bodied enrollees between 19 and 64 will keep their Medicaid if they log at least 80 hours a month of employment, work program attendance, volunteering or schoolwork.

 

[Greenbeard]

the ACA Medicaid expansion in Nebraska has increased Medicaid costs, with expenses rising from approximately $52.9 million in 2021 to $103 million in 2023. This growth in spending has raised concerns about the state's ability to manage other essential government functions.
kios.org Wikipedia

Nebraska Medicaid is a $4 billion program.

 

[justoffal]

Generally I would agree with you but it think for the upcoming midterms it's a case of "with us or against us" from both sides of the aisle.

LOL....well.....you might be right

 

[initforme]

Lowering deductibles helps pay for services.

 

[Concerned American]

Nebraska Medicaid is a $4 billion program.

Well, thanks for that update. Nice to know that it has exploded from $103M in 2023 to $3.84B in 2024. Now do you think the ACA has damaged that program and should be cut? LOL

 

[Greenbeard]

Well, thanks for that update. Nice to know that it has exploded from $103M in 2023 to $3.84B in 2024.

The degree of innumeracy needed to believe that Medicaid in any state cost $100M in 2023 is mind-boggling.

 

[Concerned American]

The degree of innumeracy needed to believe that Medicaid in any state cost $100M in 2023 is mind-boggling.

And YOU posted that it was a $4B program. Hmmmm

 

[Greenbeard]

And YOU posted that it was a $4B program. Hmmmm

It is, genius.