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Maine’s Gov. LePage: “Show me the money” to pay for Medicaid expansion. “I will not let them endanger the state’s financial health.”
http://www.themainewire.com/2017/12/proponents-medicaid-put-money-mouth/
Maine’s ‘We Want Free Ice Cream!’ Medicaid expansion referendum will cost state $54M and federal taxpayers $525M annually
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2017/11/27/maines-medicaid-mistake-could-cost-lives/#2c9c6b0b37a3
Maine’s Gov. LePage: “Leaving needy Mainers to languish on waitlists while giving free health care to able-bodied adults is unconscionable.”
http://www.themainewire.com/2017/12/proponents-medicaid-put-money-mouth/
Medicaid produces “persistently inferior outcomes”
http://thefederalist.com/2017/12/08/study-suggests-medicaid-persistently-inferior-form-health-coverage/
Medicaid produces inferior health outcomes in part b/c “less skilled and less specialized surgeons” most likely to accept Medicaid.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2017/11/27/maines-medicaid-mistake-could-cost-lives/#2c9c6b0b37a3
Medicaid expansion generally not improving health outcomes for young adults
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/aca-health-outcomes-medicaid-recipients/
Greedy hospitals lost their bet that Medicaid expansion would bring them riches; reimbursements lower than expected, bad debt rising again.
http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/moodys-revises-nonprofit-and-public-health-outlook-negative-hospitals-face-rising-operating
Congress should stop subsidizing state Medicaid provider tax scams
http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/363295-medicaid-funds-shouldnt-be-used-to-subsidize-state-taxes-on-health-care
Audit shows Oregon spends hundreds of millions of dollars in improper Medicaid payments; state “wasteful and incompetent”
http://reason.com/blog/2017/12/01/why-does-oregon-suck-so-much-at-spending
Yo, Virginia! Medicaid costs are unsustainable even w/o Medicaid expansion. What other parts of the budget will you cut?
http://www.fredericksburg.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-paying-for-medicaid-in-virginia/article_2000edba-a602-5f9c-97c2-c5c55c42b28f.html
Virginia cannot afford long-term costs of Medicaid expansion and should not make false commitments
http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/state/virginia-governor-elect-promises-to-promote-bipartisan-agenda/article_05dab7ce-1ded-5df2-8569-e363c3ece241.html
Virginia’s new #UnicornsAndRainbows Governor wants free community college AND Medicaid expansion
http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/state/virginia-governor-elect-promises-to-promote-bipartisan-agenda/article_05dab7ce-1ded-5df2-8569-e363c3ece241.html
Medicaid expansion is a bad idea because Obamacare failed to ‘bend the healthcare cost curve down’
http://www.fredericksburg.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-paying-for-medicaid-in-virginia/article_2000edba-a602-5f9c-97c2-c5c55c42b28f.html
Access is already a problem in North Carolina and you want Medicaid expansion there?
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20171127/NEWS/171129943/north-carolina-seeks-to-widen-medicaid-network-by-paying-docs-debt
“Whistleblower: Medicaid Managed-Care Firm Improperly Denied Care To Thousands”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/whistleblower-medicaid-managed-care-firm-improperly-denied-care-to-thousands/2017/12/01/8a389d46-d680-11e7-9ad9-ca0619edfa05_story.html?utm_term=.ea691d106b1a
‘Medicaid expansion caused the number of ER visits to go up.’ Huh? Expansion was supposed to bring the number down. #TheyWereWrongAboutEverything
https://www.axios.com/whos-paying-for-er-visits-2511449513.html
California: insurers are getting rich on Medicaid while low-income and disabled get stuck with substandard care
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453920/medicaid-expanding-making-insurers-rich-most-vulnerable-paying-price
California insurers make $5.4 billion on state Medicaid program. Just more pigs at the trough. #SpecialInterests
https://californiahealthline.org/multimedia/making-money-off-medicaid/
Louisiana Governor dodges lawmakers by using emergency noncompetitive process to renew Medicaid managed care contracts
http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_38691ce2-ced9-11e7-b62a-4f6136396e8d.html
Poll: voters want to freeze Medicaid expansion; support for expansion drops when told money could be redirected to other priorities
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/11/15/poll-voters-want-to-hit-the-brakes-on-medicaid-expansion-n2409979
“Report: Skyrocketing Medicaid Enrollment Leading to Increased Government Dependency”
http://freebeacon.com/issues/report-skyrocketing-medicaid-enrollment-leading-to-increased-government-dependency/
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!