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Why focus on Medicaid expansion? Because, last time we ran the numbers, 85 percent of people receiving Obamacare subsidies were Medicaid expansion enrollees, not individual market Obamacare customers.
CBO: 112 million people will be on Medicaid by 2027. #Unsustainable
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/112000000-medicaid-enrollees-set-climb-40m-under-obamacare
Per capita Medicaid expansion costs to remain 50% higher than projected through 2022
https://economics21.org/html/projected-medicaid-expansion-costs-just-rose-again-2423.html
Medi-Cal being sued for lack of access; patients flee to ER, even Mexico, to get care.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicaids-potemkin-health-coverage-1500419200?mod=djemMER
“Study shows Medicaid expansion hasn’t led to significant reduction in ER visits”
http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/healthcare/study-shows-limited-reduction-ed-visits-after-medicaid-expansion
Maine’s 2002 Medicaid expansion: drag on economic growth, uninsured rate unchanged, enrollment exploded
http://www.themainewire.com/2017/08/reject-medicaid-expansion/
Medicaid expansion would cost Maine taxpayers $400 million in 5 years
http://www.themainewire.com/2017/08/reject-medicaid-expansion/
Medicaid expansion a perfect storm of unsustainable costs, less access to care, worse outcomes than no insurance
http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/medicaid-expansion-was-and-is-a-bad-mistake/
Medicaid expansion means cuts for the most vulnerable low-income children, pregnant women, disabled
http://www.themainewire.com/2017/08/medicaid-expansion-jeopardizes-services-needy/
Medicaid expansion in Arkansas: deceit, bribery, fraud, out-of-staters on program, jobs quit, verification broken
http://www.lovelycitizen.com/story/2434295.html
Medicaid expansion enrollment explosion in Montana leads some to hope program will sunset 2019.
http://missoulian.com/news/government-and-politics/daines-montana-s-medicaid-expansion-could-end-by-without-new/article_b885a8de-7add-5519-a71c-a8184f17efa3.html
Study: “Medicaid expansion to cost states nearly $9 billion”; $4 billion more than 2016
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/medicaid-expansion-to-cost-states-nearly-9-billion/article/2626029
What ‘state savings’ under Medicaid expansion? IL spending tripled, OR mulls ending program, LA half of budget
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2017/08/medicaid_expansion_1.html
Enrollment has exploded in every Medicaid expansion state – KY $3B, OH $4.7B, CA $14.7B over budget
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2017/08/medicaid_expansion_1.html
Louisiana Medicaid expansion enrollment to bust through projections by 150,000; state ‘savings’ evaporating
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2017/08/medicaid_expansion_1.html
Deconstructing the Single Payer Narrative (tweets & analysis) –
http://www.liberato.us/single-payer.html
REPEAL OBAMACARE NOW!
– end the individual mandate
– return Medicaid to a poverty program (100% FPL)
– legalize true catastrophic insurance
END THE OBAMACARE CONGRESSIONAL EXEMPTION!