Posted on 11/23/2012 7:36:57 AM PST by tobyhill
Here's how much Missouri Republicans oppose Obamacare.
GOP lawmakers are reluctant to spend one dollar in state money for every 19-plus dollars of new federal money if that means expanding Medicaid eligibility in line with the president’s health care overhaul.
The state has no extra money to spare, they say, so any expansion will likely result in cuts somewhere else, like education.
It’s a stance that’s not playing well with their hometown hospitals, though, who say they badly need more Medicaid dollars as money they get from Washington for caring for low-income patients starts to go away.
And now those hospitals are issuing a stark warning: Failure to act could result in some hospitals closing their doors for good.
“We’re trying not to be alarmists, but it’s going to be very fiscally difficult for hospitals if Missouri doesn’t get this done,” said Dave Dillon, vice president of media relations for the Missouri Hospital Association.
The federal health care law, known as the Affordable Care Act, calls for an expansion of Medicaid to cover millions of low-income residents who can’t afford insurance. The federal government would pay the additional cost initially, with states picking up 5 percent beginning in 2017 and 10 percent by 2020.
The expansion in Missouri would cover an additional 255,000 adults earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. The first six years of Medicaid expansion would cost Missouri $431 million, but bring in an additional $8.4 billion in federal money, according to the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
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Well since Missouri is seriously overbuilt with excess hospital capacity, the administrators will be the ones crying in their soup. Everyone else will find a job somewhere and patients will be seen. Too much crying over nothing by those with cush jobs and lifetime percs.
Does Missouri have shale deposits?
“for those millions who cannot afford health care insurance”....these are the same millions who cannot afford home or car insurance but yet live with other expensive material items and probably have dogs and cats.
Reading the Bible, especially Proverbs, will answer what happens by living life absent of God...and we are just trying to hold it all up when it is gone!
Well, I wouldn’t put too much faith in the MO GOP. But it is stronger than ever at the congressional and state legislative area.
TO ALL MISSOURI FREEPERS: Please send Reps. Silvey and Barnes “Thank you” emails encouraging them to stand strong. (I already have.) It’s a cinch the “takers” will contact them to complain; they need to know we stand with them.
God forbid that they would ever cut education -- professors making $250,000/yr and teachers working 9 months of the year making $100,000. That's their sacred cow.
Props to the ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE! The voters of Missouri, IIRC, voted to reject the damnable Obamacare a couple years back.
So let’s see MORE of this nationwide.
Likewise, many universities have “overbuilt” since federal loans became so easily obtained. The drumbeat that a college education for all should be available came about because the colleges and universities needed more and more customers to pay for the facilities for which the administrators had already planned. Then they discovered that they could jack up tuition rates and parents would pay even elevated rates. The absurd costs of going to a place like Harvard, whose endowment is large enough to provide almost free education for the majority of its students, is instructive. Upper class parents will pay almost any price to gain a social advantage tfor their dwindling number of off-spring.
Likewise, many universities have “overbuilt” since federal loans became so easily obtained. The drumbeat that a college education for all should be available came about because the colleges and universities needed more and more customers to pay for the facilities for which the administrators had already planned. Then they discovered that they could jack up tuition rates and parents would pay even elevated rates. The absurd costs of going to a place like Harvard, whose endowment is large enough to provide almost free education for the majority of its students, is instructive. Upper class parents will pay almost any price to gain a social advantage tfor their dwindling number of off-spring.
It is more like the over $200,000 a year paid to the school administrators who crowd the main offices of every school district. In Texas, the only teachers who earn over $100,000 a year are the football coaches.
Once again the LMSM fails to accurately report the issue.
There is NO Federal Money it is all tax money collected from Mr & Mrs john Q. Public. And what is the LMSM also talking about - the financial crises that happens in 40 days. Hmmm.. How can we raise federal spending while we are cutting federal spending by almost a trillion dollars at the same time?
Oh, excuse me - I thought about the issue instead of letting my emotions dictate the answer. How reactionary and — I forgot the latest buzz words for this type of problem, there are so many these days — I am.
"takers" [free loaders, moochers, non-tax payers, lazies] most all of the socialist obami voters.
“The election is over, and we’re going to have to deal with the fact that the Affordable Care Act is still in place,” he said. “It’s hard to say exactly where this debate is going, but the economics of it make sense.”
This is why we cannot talk to or reason with these communist demonrats. Even during the best of economic conditions, 0-care is a budget buster and does not make sense. We cannot compromise or talk to these deluded and evil people. If we cannot stop them by the means we have at our disposal, we have no alternative but to allow and even hasten the system’s collapse and force Democrat constituents to feel the pain.
Let the great Welfare Migration begin. Everyone wanting expanded Medicaid coverage will surely move to Illinois.
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