GOV. RITTER SIGNS HISTORIC HEALTHCARE AFFORDABILITY ACT ( Free for Illegals )

The Cherry Creek News ^ | 22 April 2009 | Dreyer, Evan

[george76]

Gov. Bill Ritter today signed into law the historic Colorado Healthcare Affordability Act, which will provide health coverage to more than 100,000 uninsured Coloradans and reduce uncompensated care and cost shifting.

House Bill 09-1293 is the most significant health reform legislation in Colorado in four decades.

“At no increased cost to taxpayers, the Colorado Healthcare Affordability Act will allow us to provide critical health services to people who need those services the most,” Gov. Ritter said. “This historic legislation will significantly address the crisis of the uninsured while also reducing uncompensated care and cost-shifting in our healthcare system.

By partnering with hospitals, the Colorado Healthcare Affordability Act will allow the state to generate an additional $600 million a year through a provider fee, and draw down $600 million in federal Medicaid matching funds. The combined $1.2 billion will support Medicaid and the Child Health Plan Plus expansions and be used to improve hospital reimbursement rates for service provided through Medicaid and the Colorado Indigent Care Program (CICP).

[george76]

Established in 1991, Arveschoug-Bird says that the state can only increase general spending, which includes health care and education, by six percent from year to year

http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-healthact-042109,0,296315.story

[keepitreal]

Sen. Betty Boyd, chair of the Health and Human Services committee and one of the primary bill sponsors, said, “Health impacts the entire state: healthy employees, children and businesses translate into successful businesses, productive workers, high-achieving students, and a thriving economy. The Colorado Healthcare Affordability Act will make healthcare affordable for all Coloradans, especially those who need it, and will make it affordable for providers who offer it.”

And it costs nothing! Everyone gets something and the money comes out of thin air! Betty Boyd is my senator. She is a dim bulb. Frankly most of the legislators in CO are dim bulbs.

[george76]

Ritter and his pals love fees.

[keepitreal]

Or maybe they’ll just like to take it out of some quasi-public corporation. Free money out of thin air.

[Aria]

100,000 will cost 1.2 billion? And they’re trying to say this is at no cost to taxpayers?

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[Tzimisce]

Pay your taxes (someone has too.) :)

[Myrddin]

Before I selected Idaho, I had Colorado on my "possible" list for relocation from San Diego. I was afforded an opportunity to work on a contract in Denver (Greenwood Village) in early 2000. That experience crossed Colorado off my list. South Denver has nearly as many Mexicans as San Ysidro. The liberals in Denver and Boulder are nauseating busybodies. No thanks.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

I agree but Colorado Springs welcomes conservatives.

Come one and all!

[Myrddin]

Colorado Springs was my likely choice. That was due in part to my son's interest in the Air Force Academy. He fumbled his request for an appointment from our congressman. When he signed up for the USMC, the Air Force Academy was no longer a draw to live in Colorado Springs.

[calcowgirl]

At no increased cost to taxpayers

Wow! Free healthcare! How cool is that?

... the Colorado Healthcare Affordability Act will allow the state to generate an additional $600 million a year through a provider fee, and draw down $600 million in federal Medicaid matching funds.

But, he said it wouldn't cost anything...

Never mind.

[21twelve]

Must be something like the $1.2 billion that Obama wants for his VOLUNTEER service thingy.

[freekitty]

If we are paying for it it isn’t free. This man is brain dead and should be removed from office along with the culprits who wrote and passed this bill.

[freekitty]

“At no increased cost to taxpayers”

That I am sure is a lie.

[Vigilanteman]

Provider fees = $80 aspirins or other surcharges on the bills of those who have insurance or whom the health care bureaucracy determines can afford to pay so the poor illegal aliens who can't afford to pay can get it free.

I shall never forget the astronomical cost the hospital charged us for our second daughter's diapers and other routine stuff because I had minimal insurance (which ended up paying next to nothing) and was employed for a whopping $15K per year at the time. But at least I got a great kid to show for it!

[Morgan in Denver]

“At no increased cost to taxpayers"

Every time this appears in any article grab your wallet.  Every itme the state says this, I pay more.

 

[Jeff Head]

“At no increased cost to taxpayers....

...the Colorado Healthcare Affordability Act will allow the state to generate an additional $600 million a year through a provider fee.

More politicians double speak and parsing.

Those health care providers will pass on the "fee" to those who can pay or to insurance companies and insurance companies will pass them on as increased rates.

The matching federal funds will be passed on as increased taxes by the Obama administration across the nation.

Ritter, someone always pays.

The 1.2 billion comes from somewhere...and that is from the working proiductive people of the country and the state of Colorado.

Dear Lord, spare us these marxists.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS

NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES

OBAMA, THE STOCK MARKET, AND ENERGY

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING

IT'S TIME FOR A RETURN TO THE OLD SCHOOL

[SwinneySwitch]

“At no increased cost to taxpayers,...”

LOL! Thank you, Guv Ritter!

[george76]

Yup.

“At no increased cost to taxpayers”

That I am sure is a lie.

[Kozak]

“At no increased cost to taxpayers, the Colorado Healthcare Affordability Act will allow us to provide critical health services to people who need those services the most,”

Free Money!

[MileHi]

This state is in decline...

[Doohickey]

At no increased cost to taxpayers...

Where have I heard that one before?

[FlashBack]

That’s the problem...50% plus of the people keep voting FOR this “free” crap.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

I’d like to see CS become a haven for conservatives like Boulder, Aspen, or Santa Cruz is for libs.

[freekitty]

Then they need to find a backbone they keep reminding us our elected politicians don’t have and vote them out.

[FlashBack]

It’s the ones voting for them to get the free crap that I’m talking about...we need to get good candidates and do all we can to get them in office and get rid of the enablers that are currently in office.

[freekitty]

I so agree.

[potlatch]

Obama and Hillary-'scare' will take care of you!!

[george76]

Thanks.

Hillarycare may kill us

[potlatch]

[Hillarycare may kill us]

Yep, the Canadians may even stop coming to the USA for their health care, lol.

Snow Birds, from the north, have been going across to Mexico for years for dental care and medications. Many of those dentists were trained in the US. There may be a boom down there in medical care if this keeps up - [and the doctors are good enough].

[devolve]

.

Every cent your employer deducts from your paycheck that they may or may not match - plus more -

Is cash that you do not get paid

A union auto worker for GM gets $27-$33/hour

To Ford about $6/hour less

To non-union carmakers - $25-$19/hour

But the actual costs to GM are $75/hour

[johniegrad]

Colorado Healthcare Affordability Act will allow the state to generate an additional $600 million a year through a provider fee

They are doing nothing other than taxing the health care businesses that are being hurt by illegals in the first place.

[potlatch]

Amazing how you can tick off those numbers.

[devolve]

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Impressive Huh?

I make ‘em up like the liberals do! :

133% of the guns used by Mexican drug gangs are smuggled in by greedy Amish farmers in Pennsylvania!

[potlatch]

Lol, I know you are usually pretty good at recalling facts and figures. I was just confused about the relationship to health care but figured I was ‘missing something’ as usual.

[grey_whiskers]

Just in time for the Mexican-originated Swine Flu epidemic of 2009, too.

Cheers!