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Resist calls for Medicaid expansion in the current crisis; targeted support for crisis-related care would be a much more efficient use of tax dollars
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/03/23/cover-coronavirus-treatments-dont-expand-medicaid/#201325f199f7
Ambulance response time slowed down significantly in Medicaid expansion states. That means some people with life-threatening conditions were crowded out because of predictable surge in demand for ambulance service in less acute cases after expansion.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ten-years-of-obamacare-aka-the-medicaid-expansion-act
ACA “would be better named the Medicaid Expansion Act because nearly all of the net coverage increase is through Medicaid”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ten-years-of-obamacare-aka-the-medicaid-expansion-act
Hurdles await Medicaid expansion ballot initiative at Florida high court, including argument the language was misleading
https://www.facingsouth.org/2020/03/medicaid-expansion-may-face-new-hurdle-florida-high-court
Obamacare has become a definite financial strain – ACA taxes repealed, cuts to Medicare to pay for ACA repealed or deferred
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/obamacare-is-ten-years-old-and-has-failed
- Obamacare’s Cadillac tax, health insurance tax, and medical device tax were all repealed at the end of 2019
https://reason.com/2020/03/09/congress-quietly-repeals-more-of-obamacare/
Obamacare 10-year anniversary no cause for celebration – “Spending billions of taxpayer dollars to give people low-quality coverage is hardly an achievement.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/obamacares-10th-anniversary-a-trillion-dollars-and-nothing-to-show-for-it
17 million fewer than expected enrolled in Obamacare - “we are now spending $50 billion a year to subsidize coverage in this market, and total net enrollment is up by just 3 million — a staggering $17,000 cost to taxpayers per new enrollee.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ten-years-of-obamacare-aka-the-medicaid-expansion-act
After Obamacare’s radical centralization of healthcare – less competition, fewer price signals, sky-high premiums and deductibles.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2020/03/26/obamacare-main-thrust-radical-centralization-health-care-editorials-debates/2921965001/
Obamacare’s false promises – 25 million people would sign up (not even close), budgetary ‘savings’ never materialized because taxes were repealed, people didn’t save $2,500 a year on insurance, and you can’t keep your doctor or your plan. #LIARS
https://news.yahoo.com/obamacare-predictions-didnt-quite-pan-140037917.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!