States not expanding Medicaid set to lose billions

[White Eagle]

I hope this story gets around to the GOPpers here in Texas. Perry is showing his ass again, no surprise here, and it is gonna cost the States taxpayers lots. I'm gonna do my best to see this word gets around.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/...dicaid-set-to-lose-nbsp-billions?detail=email

Thu Dec 05, 2013 at 10:22 AM PST
States not expanding Medicaid set to lose billions

by Joan McCarter

States refusing to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act will lose more than $35 billion collectively in federal funds by 2022, and cost their taxpaying citizens more.

That's from a new report from the Commonwealth
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/m..._stand_gain_lose_Medicaid_expansion_ib_v2.pdf

Not expanding Medicaid is not a rational decision for any state. But there are some very big losers: Texas ($9.6 billion), Florida ($5 billion), Georgia ($2.9 billion), Virginia ($2.8 billion) and North Carolina ($2.6 billion). The citizens of those states will continue to "bear a significant share of the overall cost of the expansion through federal tax payments," the report says, while they will "not enjoy any of the benefits."

 

[Orlandude]

I can only speak for Florida but that decision by the Florida legislature was made totally against the will of the people. It was made by a republican legislature based on ideology. Hopefully, the people of Florida will remember this in the 2014 elections and the upcoming gubernatorial election.

 

[T-Rexx]

Nothing like spending tens of billions of dollars in order to prevent people from getting health care.

 

[Vitamin]

In my state's case, hopefully McAuliffe will come in before we actually lose all that money. The only thing stopping VA from having state exchanges is the Governor's Mansion.

 

[White Eagle]

I can only speak for Florida but that decision by the Florida legislature was made totally against the will of the people. It was made by a republican legislature based on ideology. Hopefully, the people of Florida will remember this in the 2014 elections and the upcoming gubernatorial election.

That's what happened here too. I'm hoping for 2014 to come in and clean House.

 

[JordanFrank]

Citizens of States NOT expanding Medicaid set to lose BIG !.....just makes me ill inside to think just how much certain people work overtime to deny others something they themselves generously partake in and enjoy.

 

[chrisrobin]

We make choices. It doesn't matter whether the average (low information) voter is voting against his self-interest, he should be mature enough to accept the results. You made the choice... you pay the consequences. You win a few, you lose a few. That's all there is to it.

 

[Kulindahr]

Ideology trumps practicality.

Pragmatism is the one thing that all rational politicians have. These politicians are not rational.

 

[Benvolio]

All of this money from the Federal government will be borrowed. What happens when the world gets smart and stops loaning to us?

 

[Benvolio]

Ideology trumps practicality.

Pragmatism is the one thing that all rational politicians have. These politicians are not rational.

Pragmatism is the adoption of what works. Is Obama care working? Will it work? What happens when the world stops loaning the money upon which it is based?

 

[Kabluey]

All of this money from the Federal government will be borrowed. What happens when the world gets smart and stops loaning to us?

Handily enough, no one is willing for the world's biggest debtor to default any time soon.
An increase in tax take could solve the debt issue for the rest of the world's comfort.

 

[rareboy]

All of this money from the Federal government will be borrowed. What happens when the world gets smart and stops loaning to us?

All the money for the bloated and unnecessary defense industry is borrowed as well. Here's a thought. How about fashioning health care out of swords?

 

[chrisrobin]

Ideology trumps practicality.

Pragmatism is the one thing that all rational politicians have. These politicians are not rational.

Man cannot live by ideology alone. Hungry? Eat my shorts and your Confederate flags.

 

[Benvolio]

All the money for the bloated and unnecessary defense industry is borrowed as well. Here's a thought. How about fashioning health care out of swords?

We don't need no stinkin defense. Our most dangerous enemies are internal.

 

[Alnitak]

Ideology trumps practicality.

Pragmatism is the one thing that all rational politicians have. These politicians are not rational.

Well it's their fixation now.

Many states have now passed laws making it impossible to even advise people about healthcare. Texas has recently passed one as well.

 

[Rolyo85]

We don't need no stinkin defense. Our most dangerous enemies are internal.

True. And they all wave around a bible, wrapped in the US flag.

 

[Kulindahr]

Man cannot live by ideology alone. Hungry? Eat my shorts and your Confederate flags.

I love remembering the black guy I knew who had a Confederate flag on his room wall, who would challenge white supremacist types by telling them he had it because one of his ancestors fought for the Confederacy, and then ask just where their ancestors were at the time.... Usually their ancestors actually lived in Europe or the North back then, but the reactions were priceless when they actually had one who fought for the South -- he'd call them "Brother!" and watch them squirm (or run).

 

[Kulindahr]

We don't need no stinkin defense. Our most dangerous enemies are internal.

Yes, and they have control of the U.S. House of Representatives, where they have voted against jobs, voted to dishonor veterans, voted against closing the deficit, and recently voted in favor of gun control.

 

[Kulindahr]

True. And they all wave around a bible, wrapped in the US flag.

Well, not exactly all -- I met a Tea Party deist (who refused to be a Christian because the 'best of' the Founding Fathers weren't).

 

[Kulindahr]

Pragmatism is the adoption of what works. Is Obama care working? Will it work? What happens when the world stops loaning the money upon which it is based?

Pragmatism says you don't adopt a position that takes money away from your constituents without giving them anything in return.

Although I suppose in a very indirect way it might be helping keep the federal deficit down.