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Said Michael Cannon, director of health care studies at the Cato Institute: "Shame on us for creating perverse incentives that cause people to give up private coverage for Medicaid."
Big government getting bigger with a Republican president and Congress. Someone remind me again what this party is supposed to stand for.
The scariest part is that it costs this much even though the government pays PEANUTS for care.
Among the BIG problems with Medicaid is that it provides everything to it's users...slip and hurt your back? Call an ambulance to get to the ER rather than paying for a cab. There are NO limits to the medications that may be prescribed, as opposed to only allowing off-patent meds for routine medical problems like hypercholesterolemia or hypertension. People with no visible means of support are having children at alarming rates, at no cost to themselves.
Here in MO, there was a great amount of wailing and knashing of teeth when Blunt made even small adjustments to the state's medicaid system.
You can thank Bush and the Rino's in the senate for this mess.
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I wish people would stop saying COSTS when they mean SPENDING. There is a big difference.
Under federal rules, a family of four can earn as much as $40,000 a year in most states and still get government health insurance for children
Who knew that $40K was "low-income"?
"Some experts blame the growth of Medicaid on 1996's landmark welfare reform legislation, which moved millions of welfare recipients off the welfare rolls and into low paying jobs. "
SOME EXPERTS LOL! All these people got jobs and then got sick of injured so they wouldn't have to work??