As the Associated Press reported last week, the cost of expanding Medicaid to millions more low-income people is increasing faster than expected. In a recent report to Congress, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said the cost of expansion was $6,366 per person for 2015, about 49 percent higher than previously estimated.
(Democrat Hillary Clinton has promised that if she’s elected president, she would work to expand Medicaid in the remaining 19 states that have not done so.)
Crash the system quicker.
They would have to crush state rights to implement this scheme, the fix is in for the Supreme Court.
Medicaid is a Federally funded state administered plan.