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Maine Governor LePage refuses to launch Medicaid expansion without reliable funding: “I will go to jail before I put the state in red ink.”
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/07/12/paul-lepage-says-hed-go-to-jail-before-he-expands-medicaid/
Here’s your future, Virginia: Medicaid expansion enrollment is 2.5x what was estimated in Alaska; state has to pour tens of millions of dollars into program because ‘state savings’ never materialized. #NorthamNightmare
http://mustreadalaska.com/alaska-medicaid-expansion-enrollees-now-nearly-50000/
Auditor: Louisiana Medicaid a poorly run ‘loosey-goosey mess’; e.g., managed care company payments to providers not being properly checked
https://www.theolympian.com/news/business/article214437469.html
Careful when you hitch your wagon to the Medicaid star; Chicago hospital will have to shut down unless state coughs up some money.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-south-shore-hospital-funding-shutdown-20180710-story.html
IG report: insurers doing a bad job detecting Medicaid fraud; insurers not telling states about fraudulent doctors/providers, leaving them free to defraud elsewhere
https://khn.org/news/insurers-fall-short-in-catching-and-reporting-medicaid-fraud-inspectors-find/
How to Defraud Medicaid #179 – bill program for housing Medicaid recipients staying at other motels
http://mustreadalaska.com/no-tell-motel-bethel-medicaid-scam-unravels/
People only think they’re for Medicaid Expansion because they’re not hearing any of the negatives.
https://idahofreedom.org/obamacare-initiative-has-problems-and-idaho-voters-need-to-hear-them/
Obamacare rate increases outstripping inflation in Delaware, Colorado https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/health/2018/07/11/highmark-seeks-5-percent-increase-obamacare-prices/774837002/
+ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/obamacare-insurers-ask-for-6-percent-average-premium-increase-in-colorado
Trump admin cuts funding for ACA navigators because the features of #TrainwreckInsurance are familiar to most people now
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/10/obamacare-cuts-mean-groups-have-less-sign-up-customers/773728002/
House GOP hiding Obamacare bailout inside HSA bill
http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/11/republicans-hide-obamacare-bailout-inside-health-savings-accounts-bill/
Obamacare’s Rube Goldberg complexity traps the unwary in 5-figure subsidy clawbacks
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Obamacare-s-unexpected-side-effect-an-IOU-to-13055661.php
ACA abortion-pill mandate bites the dust again, this time at Florida law school
http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/10584
Obamacare genius mastermind confesses they misjudged strength of opposition to ACA, somehow didn’t see the acrimony coming from ramming it down our throats. #TheFatalConceit
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ben-rhodes-obamas-team-misjudged-strength-of-opposition-to-obamacare
The Obamacare genius masterminds were going to save us from ‘junk’ insurance. So now we have narrow networks on top of high deductibles. Way to go, geniuses! #ObamacareJunkInsuance
Deconstructing the Single Payer Narrative (tweets & analysis) –
http://www.liberato.us/single-payer.html
REPEAL OBAMACARE NOW!
– legalize true catastrophic insurance
– return Medicaid to a poverty program
END THE OBAMACARE CONGRESSIONAL EXEMPTION!