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Iowa widens short-term plan escape hatch from Obamacare
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/staff-columnist/iowa-offers-another-option-to-those-left-behind-by-obamacare-20200124
After fantasyland – Medicaid expansion to reap ‘state savings’ and raising provider reimbursement rates – comes the reckoning for New York: cuts to Medicaid to fill $6.1 billion hole in state budget. Are you watching this, Virginia?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/nyregion/medicaid-budget-ny-cuomo.html
Counties to Idaho’s Governor: don’t shift the cost of Medicaid expansion to us. Voters mandated expansion, but it’s only funded to June 30th. #IdahoConundrum
https://www.postregister.com/star/news/jefferson-county-commissioners-express-top-priorities-and-concerns-to-governor/article_6fe8f3f5-20bd-5c07-ab67-ab97a04b8abb.html
Trump administration expected to initiate Medicaid block grants though agency rule change
https://www.oann.com/president-trump-to-begin-allowing-states-to-control-medicaid-spending-under-federal-guidance/
Medicaid expansion likely but not a done deal in Kansas
https://hayspost.com/posts/5e2887d97d7daa72b30eb7f2
Medicaid apologists can’t stand people getting off the program in a good econonmy or because they weren’t eligible in the first place
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/critics-cry-foul-missouri-medicaid-enrollment-hits-5-year-low
The program that ate the states – state spending on Medicaid went from 12% of state budgets in 2000 to 17% now. #Unsustainable
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adammillsap/2020/01/23/medicaid-spending-is-taking-over-state-budgets/#4b8b856dfd07
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!