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Tag Archives: Medicaid
Beware: Medicaid Beneficiary Clawbacks
As a consequence of Obamacare, states have announced they’ll be making much greater use of rules (Medicaid Estate Recovery Program, aka ‘MERP’) allowing them to recover the cost of Medicaid patients’ care (including services, prescriptions, and hospitalizations) from their estates. … Continue reading
Mandatory Medicaid – Senator’s Son Automatically Enrolled
Comment: Per the ACA’s section 1311, many people who go to the exchanges expecting to buy insurance will unexpectedly find themselves automatically enrolled in Medicaid. “I actually tried to get my son signed up through the Kentucky exchange, you know, … Continue reading
Posted in Government Takeover, Growing Dependency, Perversities
Tagged Exchanges, Medicaid
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Hospitals Will Lose, Not Gain, Under Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
Comment: Here’s a hard question Medicaid expansion supporters can’t answer: Isn’t it true that hospitals lose money on every Medicaid patient that comes in the door? Why, then, do hospitals think it makes sense to expand the program? Do they really expect to … Continue reading
Posted in Designed to Fail
Tagged Exchanges, Hospitals, Medicaid, Medicaid expansion, perverse incentives, reduced reimbursements, unintended consequences
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Oregon Study: Medicaid Can’t Justify Its Existence
Comment: This study is giving Obamacare supporters fits. They are pushing to expand Medicaid, but the dirty little secret is that Medicaid recipients are no better off in terms of health outcomes than people without insurance. And herding millions more … Continue reading
Report from the Front Lines: Obama Administration Squeezing Free Charity Care
Comment: The Progressives penchant for shutting down private activity and running everything through government is just insane. Now doctors are being told in effect they can’t provide free charity care without registering with Medicaid. The doctor asks in her story … Continue reading
Posted in Government Takeover
Tagged front lines, liberty. Doctors, Medicaid, original reporting, Poor
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Mandatory Medicaid Coming
Comment: Remember when the President said if you like your health plan, you can keep it? The insanity continues as millions of people above the poverty line are going to be forced into a badly managed program for the poor … Continue reading
Posted in Government Takeover
Tagged Exchanges, keep your policy, Medicaid, promises, Section 1311 Opt-Out
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Unsustainable Medicaid Expansion Would Exceed Third of Population
“The expansion of Medicaid required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will drive state Medicaid expenditures beyond sustainable limits, a joint study released today by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) and the Cato Institute projects. The … Continue reading
Posted in Designed to Fail, Government Takeover, Growing Dependency
Tagged Cost, Medicaid
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Defunding Possibilities Are Narrow But Crucial
Most of the spending in Obamacare falls under the general rubric of “entitlements.” Entitlement spending on social programs is “mandatory” in federal budget parlance (as distinct from federal agency appropriations budgets, which are termed “discretionary”). Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies and … Continue reading
Posted in Government Takeover
Tagged defunding, Exchanges, Medicaid, original reporting, oversight
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Mississippi Rejects Medicaid Expansion
Obamacare attempted to transform Medicaid from a poverty program into a creeping middle-class entitlement by setting eligibility far above the poverty line. But the Supreme Court ruled in June that states don’t have to play along. Medicaid was already bankrupting … Continue reading
Middle-Class Medicaid Expansion Catastrophic for the Poor
Do you care about the poor? You need to read this: “One of the most tragic failings of ObamaCare is that it will make it harder for many of the most vulnerable citizens – patients with no option but Medicaid … Continue reading