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State hi-risk pools are back, stabilizing insurance markets and rectifying the stupidity of the Obamacare Genius Masterminds
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/cms-offers-states-help-in-establishing-reinsurance-programs
15 states have made a show of ensconcing Obamacare in the event a court throws it out, but none is prepared to actually fund it; don’t forget, the states that had guaranteed issue before Obamacare crashed and burned
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/no-money-down-states-vow-obamacare-replacements-without-funding-plans
Democratic congresswoman trashes her Obamacare plan; ‘it’s not good insurance’
https://freebeacon.com/politics/dem-complains-about-her-taxpayer-subsidized-obamacare-plan/
The Phony Compassion of Medicaid Expansion (original reporting)
http://obamacaretruthsquad.com/
Alaska hits the wall, Governor slashes Medicaid spending to deal with budget deficit; others fighting him. Behold the future, you other Medicaid expansion states, just wait, you’ll see. #Unsustainable
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2019/08/22/alaska
Idaho looking at cutting funding for the poor to pay for Medicaid expansion for childless able-bodied adults
https://www.heartland.org/multimedia/podcasts/cutting-funding-from-the-poor-to-pay-for-medicaid-guest-fred-birnhaum
If North Carolina enacts Medicaid expansion, it can expect skyrocketing enrollment and costs, people dropping private insurance, mushrooming fraud, the disabled shunted to waiting lists, and the supposed ‘economic boon’ never materializing
https://www.greensboro.com/opinion/columns/daniel-erspamer-and-donald-bryson-on-medicaid-north-carolina-should/article_fe661ee7-f6ab-5619-9281-f30b57914493.html
Medicaid expansion enrollment skyrocketed due to fraudulent sign-ups and people dropping private insurance
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/20/medicaid-enrollment-fraud-exploded-obamacare/
Federal judge forces Wisconsin to add transgender surgery to Medicaid benefits
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/obama-appointed-judge-rules-medicaid-taxpayers-must-pay-for-transgender-sex-reassignment-surgery/
Somebody has got to pay for Medicaid expansion, might as well be the counties. But watch those ‘state savings’ pile up, baby!
https://lmtribune.com/opinion/why-the-rush-to-pick-the-counties-pockets/article_c175b645-a6de-5795-bd09-c191f8d593b4.html
Financially self-interested Mississippi Hospital Association claims Medicaid expansion is not Obamacare. Oh, and don’t miss the line about how the 90% federal match can never go down under CURRENT law. And black will stay black as long as the color doesn’t change. Sheesh!
https://www.yallpolitics.com/2019/08/20/mha-runs-from-obamacare-moniker-asserts-medicaid-expansion-is-not-obamacare-expansion/
Illinois joins lawsuit trying to skim union dues off of Medicaid money
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/illinois-attorney-general-joins-lawsuit-trying-to-divert-medicaid-money/article_9a7603d6-c52d-11e9-a742-c36c75e212f0.html
At least 800,000 are improperly enrolled in Medicaid expansion and the problem is getting worse
https://www.wsj.com/articles/obamacares-medicaid-deception-11565822360
Montana among the states not verifying income before handing out Medicaid benefits
https://billingsgazette.com/opinion/letters/ineligible-adults-could-get-montana-medicaid/article_bf7baeef-7613-514a-a6da-87494c0ba661.html
New York lost $102 million over 4 years because it failed to weed out duplicate records in its Medicaid system. #StupidGovernment
https://nypost.com/2019/08/15/medicaid-bungle-cost-state-102-million-over-4-years/
The consequence when states incorrectly enroll ineligible beneficiaries in Medicaid expansion: the feds incorrectly send state millions and millions of your tax dollars under enhanced match
https://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region2/21501023.pdf
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!