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Medicaid expansion disaster in Louisiana could become a campaign issue
https://thehayride.com/2019/08/sadow-the-medicaid-expansion-narrative-is-beginning-to-slip-away-from-edwards/
Arkansas did Medicaid expansion the expensive way (insurance subsidies); ensuing financial disaster led state to ask feds lower eligibility from 138% to 100% of FPL, but not optimistic after feds recently denied similar Utah proposal. #HotelCalifornia
https://www.kait8.com/2019/08/07/arkansas-governor-not-expecting-medicaid-proposal-approval/
Medicaid expansion does not save rural hospitals, or boost state’s economy, or improve health outcomes for the working poor
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/08/09/mississippi-voters-know-medicaid-expansion-bad-bet/1954308001/
Memo: proposed Medicaid expansion constitutional amendment in Florida would prevent the state from leaving the program
http://www.fox35orlando.com/health/memo-raises-possibility-of-medicaid-exit
States say they’re saving money after Medicaid expansion, but costs shifted to federal taxpayers and federal deficit is rising as a result
https://www.thecentersquare.com/virginia/person-medicaid-expansion-costs-virginia-less-but-federal-taxpayers-hundreds/article_5f6263ac-b7db-11e9-ab9b-173a5d079e6a.html
People slammed into Medicaid expansion who were previously eligible for Obamacare subsidies are getting worse coverage
https://www.thecentersquare.com/virginia/person-medicaid-expansion-costs-virginia-less-but-federal-taxpayers-hundreds/article_5f6263ac-b7db-11e9-ab9b-173a5d079e6a.html
Trump administration’s torpedoing of partial Medicaid expansion is a win for the truly needy (fewer states will be tempted into full expansion for childless able-bodied adults)
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/05/refusing-fund-medicaid-expansion-huge-win-taxpayers-needy/
Activists call for full Medicaid expansion in Utah after feds reject partial expansion
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/08/02/medicaid-supporters-call/
Limits on Colorado state spending under Taxpayer Bill of Rights rein in Medicaid-Industrial Complex
https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2019/08/05/gorman-taxpayers-bill-of-rights-ensures-medicaid-spending-follows-dropping-enrollment/
Over 200 emails with tips about waste, fraud, and abuse in the Kansas Medicaid program went to an email box no one was checking and were left unread for more than a year. #StupidGovernment
https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/health-care/article233465682.html
Medicaid expansion will be on the ballot in 5 states – South Dakota, Mississippi, Wyoming, Florida and Missouri
https://www.manatt.com/Insights/News/2019/Five-States-Approve-Medicaid-Expansion-Vote-for-20
Obamacare abortifacient mandate loses in court – again
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/08/07/obama-hhs-abortion-mandate-loses-in-court-cant-force-christian-businesses-to-fund-abortions/
Poll: Only 4 percent of Iowa Dems like the current healthcare system (i.e., Obamacare). #ItsNotWorking
https://freebeacon.com/politics/poll-iowa-democrats-hate-obamacare/
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!