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Surprise, Surprise! Medicaid expansion enrollment exceeds projections in Virginia – 360K projected, 375K end of first year, 383K now. #BlowUpComing
http://www.dmas.virginia.gov/#/dashboard
- Reliance on Census Bureau data – which don’t line up with program eligibility criteria – has caused states to massively underestimate how many people would sign up for Medicaid expansion (by 72% overall)
https://townhall.com/columnists/nickstehle/2020/01/29/garbage-in-garbage-out-bad-data-led-to-an-obamacare-disaster-n2560289
Obamacare’s high premiums, deductibles, and co-pays have cut access to medical services, new study says. #ItsNotWorking
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/healthcare-access-has-declined-in-past-two-decades-despite-obamacare-study
Blue states lose bid for rehearing of court ruling which struck down Obamacare’s individual mandate
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/480527-appeals-court-refuses-to-revisit-ruling-striking-down-obamacare
Opponents point out problems with Medicaid expansion in Kansas – the disabled will get the short end of the stick, insurance premiums will rise, etc.
https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Opponents-against-Medicaid-expansion-make-case-in-Topeka-567450011.html
Oklahoma wants to be Idaho – Oklahoma’s ballot initiative doesn’t say a word about how Medicaid expansion would be funded. That’s what Idaho did and they still haven’t figured out the funding.
https://oklahomawatch.org/2020/01/29/how-would-state-pay-for-medicaid-expansion-no-one-knows-yet/
New study shows what the Obama administration did not want you to know: Medicaid expansion’s incentives for states to game the system have produced improper payments of 10-20% of total program cost (states not assessing eligibility and deliberately miscategorizing people to get higher fiederal match)
https://mises.org/wire/medicaid-expansion-cheat
“Fiscal, Political Realities Align Against Medicaid Expansion in Mississippi”
https://yallpolitics.com/2020/01/26/corder-fiscal-political-realities-align-against-medicaid-expansion-in-mississippi/
Budgetary sleight-of-hand in Idaho bill meant to mask rise in overall Medicaid spending
https://idahofreedom.org/house-bill-351-medicaid-reimbursements/
Medicaid spending eating up state budgets
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/research–commentary-medicaid-dominating-state-budgets
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!