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Medicaid expansion is about special interests, not healthcare. Wake up! – “Hospitals Push to Get Medicaid Expansion on Missouri Ballot”
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/hospitals-push-to-get-medicaid-expansion-on-missouri-ballot
New study shows half a million ineligible people enrolled in Medicaid in the 9 Medicaid expansion states examined
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/09/03/new-bombshell-report-reveals-obamacares-epic-medicaid-waste/#11f410cc3e31
Here we go again. Another study shows Medicaid expansion causes emergency room use to go UP. Most visits are for deferrable conditions. #TheyWereWrongAboutEverything
https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/all-medicaid-expansions-are-not-created-equal-the-geography-and-targeting-of-the-affordable-care-act/
Flawed Louisiana study purporting to show economic boost from Medicaid expansion ignores previous spending by new recipients, crowd-out of private insurance, and fact that state has 10,000 fewer jobs than before expansion
https://neworleanscitybusiness.com/blog/2019/09/05/ldh-touts-1-7b-impact-from-medicaid-expansion-critic-responds/
Enacting Medicaid expansion to save rural hospitals or transition to single payer will threaten the ‘most vulnerable among us’ (i.e., Medicaid’s original beneficiaries when it was a poverty program))
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/09/05/saying-yes-medicaid-means-saying-no-expansion/2200143001/
Medicaid expansion won’t save rural hospitals, CBO study shows. Jobs and people are leaving rural areas. Expansion won’t stop that.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/09/05/saying-yes-medicaid-means-saying-no-expansion/2200143001/
Medicaid expansion train wreck in Louisiana – rushed into place without being ready to administer it or check the eligibility of the people who applied
https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2019/09/05/ralph-abraham-louisiana-john-bel-edwards-medicaid-democrat-republican/2218556001/
Free clinic with private funding in Virginia closes because of Medicaid expansion. Big Government steamrolling private charity – is this really the direction we want to go?
https://www.godanriver.com/business/free-clinic-of-danville-shutters-after-seeing-drastic-drop-in/article_e9b8525e-5343-5186-9fc2-3fd48f72a3b3.html
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!