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ObamaCare's Phony Medicaid Promise Exposed
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 1/06/2014 | IBD Staff

Posted on 01/07/2014 7:20:15 AM PST by IBD editorial writer

Failure: ObamaCare is driving millions of people into Medicaid, a program we now know does nothing to improve health and actually drives emergency-room use higher.

A central premise of ObamaCare was that vastly expanding Medicaid would ultimately save health care dollars. The millions of uninsured gaining access to Medicaid would no longer crowd costly emergency rooms looking for care, the thinking went. And that improved access would keep them healthier.

Turns out that neither of those claims is true.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; doctorshortage; emergencyroom; medicaid; medicaidexpansion; obamacare; obamacarelies; obamalies; uninsured

1 posted on 01/07/2014 7:20:15 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
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To: IBD editorial writer
Turns out that neither of those claims is true

It also turns out that the people who most need to know this will never read or hear it.

2 posted on 01/07/2014 7:33:02 AM PST by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

True about that false claim,

but unlike the exchange policies with high deductibles with medicaid the hospital ERs will actually get paid something when these people show up and demand their emergency mandated services, unlike before. (Maryland has a special hospital tax to pay for uninsured)


3 posted on 01/07/2014 7:40:14 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: MosesKnows

Yes the new Medicaide enrollees, the previously uninsured, are found to go to the expensive ER for services that would cost less if they made a Dr. visit to a regular clinic. So, the projected saving that could go to help pay for ObamaCare do not exist. These phony savings were touted to help pass ObamaCcare with Obama’s “promise” of big cost reductions if we got ObamaCare started.


4 posted on 01/07/2014 7:40:17 AM PST by RicocheT (Where neither their property nor their honor is touched, most men live content, Niccolo Machiavelli)
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To: RicocheT

It can be difficult to find a doc who will take medicaid patients as they often don’t get reimbursed by our government.


5 posted on 01/07/2014 7:48:22 AM PST by sarasota
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To: sarasota

Our daughter was dropped by a doctor we were using after she became eligible for a medicaid program, this even though she is also on Medicare and is on our supplemental health insurance. He was certain to be paid, but did not want to touch it. The uncertainty that all this is causing! Like airline pilots, doctors are learning that the gravy days are going away.


6 posted on 01/07/2014 8:06:35 AM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: RobbyS

Bad news. I think our family doc will keep my daughter since we have been patients our entire lives. We shall see, however.


7 posted on 01/07/2014 8:14:54 AM PST by sarasota
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To: sarasota

We found another. But recently he is not taking new patients, but she is “in the system.” and we need use him only for routine stuff. All weird, but I can remember the day when the doctor came to the house with his black bag. That was only some fifty some-odd years ago.


8 posted on 01/07/2014 8:23:28 AM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: sarasota
It can be difficult to find a doc who will take medicaid patients as they often don’t get reimbursed by our government.

True that. My GP recently told me he hasn't seen a Medicaid patient in years. "No money in it." Exact quote.

9 posted on 01/07/2014 8:31:46 AM PST by upchuck (My Internet addiction is so bad... it's alt of ctrl.)
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To: RobbyS

I remember this as well. So much has changed...and not for the better.


10 posted on 01/07/2014 8:38:53 AM PST by sarasota
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To: MosesKnows

It’s the Cloward-Piven strategy: in order to institute something new, you have to break the old. The way you do this with an economy is to destroy it.

Lefties like 0bamugabe have no problem breaking more than a few eggs on their way to creating their utopian omelet.

These people need to be stopped, period.


11 posted on 01/07/2014 8:40:44 AM PST by Stingray (Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
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To: IBD editorial writer
From the article (emphasis mine):AMEN!
12 posted on 01/07/2014 8:45:40 AM PST by upchuck (My Internet addiction is so bad... it's alt of ctrl.)
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Medicaid example in a nutshell:

Doctors cost: $100.00

Medicaid reimbursement: $53.14

Doctors solution: do not accept Medicaid patients.

13 posted on 01/07/2014 8:58:00 AM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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The problem is that, rather than fixing this badly broken system, ObamaCare is shoving millions more into it. In fact, twice as many people who applied through an ObamaCare exchange in the first three months ended up on Medicaid rather than a private insurance plan.

Interesting, since only 25 states + DC expanded Medicaid. The number would be much higher if all the states were involved.
14 posted on 01/07/2014 10:17:36 AM PST by yorkiemom
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Any practical approach to health care reform should be incremental rather than all inclusive. It would begin with the reform of Medicaid, Medicare and the VA hospital/clinic system. There are billions of dollars in waste, fraud and inefficiency in all these programs that could be cut without affecting their patients. Add to that the list of GOP remedies—from allowing insurers a national market to malpractice tort reform—and you begin to improve the system.

ObamaCare is not about lowering costs, insuring the uninsured, or demonstrating compassion. It is about creating a huge, monolithic bureaucracy staffed by unionized, Democrat-leaning workers. It is about robbing the consumer and the private sector.

15 posted on 01/07/2014 2:01:17 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

All the people who need it won’t get it. Everyone ends up paying for it anyways? Medicrap is already taking up 22% of Fed spending. How far down the rabbit hole do we need to go?

http://itsthemoneydummies.com/


16 posted on 01/07/2014 2:33:27 PM PST by cheezyphil
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Emergency rooms, the most expensive way to provide healthcare.


17 posted on 01/07/2014 2:56:17 PM PST by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
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