Smile! You’ve Got Socialized Healthcare!
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More Red States Embrace Obamacare, As Long As You Don’t Call It That
Republicans are tying themselves in knots over health care for the poor.
Presidential candidates and other national politicians throw around a lot of rhetoric about health care reform, but the real action is happening in conservative state legislatures across the country.
Red state governors and lawmakers are deciding what health care for low-income people and those with disabilities delivered through Medicaid, the joint federal-state health benefit program, will look like in the post-Obamacare era.
“This, at this point, is largely a fight within the Republican Party,” said Joan Alker, executive director for the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, who is an expert on Medicaid issues.
In some cases, Republicans have concocted pretty convoluted ways to do Obamacare without saying they’re doing Obamacare, to get other Republicans to go along.
The passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and a Supreme Court decision two years later affirming states’ rights to refuse to participate in the law’s Medicaid expansion triggered this fight.
The ACA called for Medicaid to be available to anyone earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level, or $16,000 for a single person, and provided full federal funding from 2014 through 2016, after which Washington gradually contributes less until 2021 and future years, when states will pay 10 percent of the costs. The federal government pays an average of 57 percent of other Medicaid expenses.
Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have expanded Medicaid, which has been a key contributor to the historic reduction in the uninsured rate since 2013.
Democratic states quickly took up this arrangement, which enabled them to advance the cause of covering the uninsured at little cost to their budgets. So did states with divided government, including Kentucky and New Jersey, and even some GOP-led states like Nevada and North Dakota.
Republican interest in participating in Medicaid expansion grew after Arkansas’ divided government won federal approval for a privatized model. After that, states with Republican leadership, such as Michigan and Ohio, joined in.
This year, expansions, contractions, cuts and sweeping reforms are on the docket in states like Alabama, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
In those places and elsewhere, ideology about the role of government and about the Affordable Care Act itself is running into practical realities about access to health care and the availability of federal dollars.
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That's the right ~ the MAJORITY of USA states now have expanded Medicaid.
According to the forum right wing delusionals that makes them "socialists" who are now enjoying the same protection given in Massachusetts, Canada, and in the UK.
Smile, you've got socialized medicine.
More Red States Embrace Obamacare, As Long As You Don't Call It That
Republicans are tying themselves in knots over health care for the poor.
Presidential candidates and other national politicians throw around a lot of rhetoric about health care reform, but the real action is happening in conservative state legislatures across the country.
Red state governors and lawmakers are deciding what health care for low-income people and those with disabilities delivered through Medicaid, the joint federal-state health benefit program, will look like in the post-Obamacare era.
“This, at this point, is largely a fight within the Republican Party,” said Joan Alker, executive director for the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, who is an expert on Medicaid issues.
In some cases, Republicans have concocted pretty convoluted ways to do Obamacare without saying they’re doing Obamacare, to get other Republicans to go along.
The passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and a Supreme Court decision two years later affirming states’ rights to refuse to participate in the law’s Medicaid expansion triggered this fight.
The ACA called for Medicaid to be available to anyone earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level, or $16,000 for a single person, and provided full federal funding from 2014 through 2016, after which Washington gradually contributes less until 2021 and future years, when states will pay 10 percent of the costs. The federal government pays an average of 57 percent of other Medicaid expenses.
Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have expanded Medicaid, which has been a key contributor to the historic reduction in the uninsured rate since 2013.
Democratic states quickly took up this arrangement, which enabled them to advance the cause of covering the uninsured at little cost to their budgets. So did states with divided government, including Kentucky and New Jersey, and even some GOP-led states like Nevada and North Dakota.
Republican interest in participating in Medicaid expansion grew after Arkansas’ divided government won federal approval for a privatized model. After that, states with Republican leadership, such as Michigan and Ohio, joined in.
This year, expansions, contractions, cuts and sweeping reforms are on the docket in states like Alabama, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
In those places and elsewhere, ideology about the role of government and about the Affordable Care Act itself is running into practical realities about access to health care and the availability of federal dollars.
more ..........
That's the right ~ the MAJORITY of USA states now have expanded Medicaid.
According to the forum right wing delusionals that makes them "socialists" who are now enjoying the same protection given in Massachusetts, Canada, and in the UK.
Smile, you've got socialized medicine.
More Red States Embrace Obamacare, As Long As You Don't Call It That
Get Ready for Higher Obamacare Rates Next Year
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/upshot/get-ready-for-higher-obamacare-rates-next-year.html?_r=0
It already looks clear that many Obamacare insurance plans are going to raise their prices significantly.
Well duh! You libtard suckers thought it was all going to be free!
Oh joy of joys!
Massachusetts pays the highest family health care premiums in the U.S.
http://www.masslive.com/news/worcester/index.ssf/2016/04/more_are_insured_under_massach.html
And if the rest of the country gives in like Massachusetts you can be protected too!
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/upshot/get-ready-for-higher-obamacare-rates-next-year.html?_r=0
It already looks clear that many Obamacare insurance plans are going to raise their prices significantly.
Well duh! You libtard suckers thought it was all going to be free!
Oh joy of joys!
Massachusetts pays the highest family health care premiums in the U.S.
http://www.masslive.com/news/worcester/index.ssf/2016/04/more_are_insured_under_massach.html
And if the rest of the country gives in like Massachusetts you can be protected too!
Good news! More people are covered under Obamacare! (because of stiff fines)
Obamacare just made history for the best possible reason - AOL
Bad news.... Obamacare is useless to the working poor!
"Rising premiums and astronomical deductibles render coverage all but useless for some lower-income segments of the population. "
We told you so!
Obamacare just made history for the best possible reason - AOL
Bad news.... Obamacare is useless to the working poor!
"Rising premiums and astronomical deductibles render coverage all but useless for some lower-income segments of the population. "
We told you so!
my latest medical bill: $ 0.00
just as in Romneycare
Romneycare is gone... geez when are you going to get it into your head?
And you're on medicare correct?
LOL.
That beautiful state of Massachusetts expanded Medicaid just in case you have forgotten. Unlike so many delusionals of the far right, they, like the MAJORITY of the states in the Union have also expanded it.
Living on borrowed money.
BHO promised the premiums would go down.
Seems to me the medical Mafia is the federal gubmint in the US what with Medicare and Medicaid.
But... but... they promised!
New York enters the ObamaCare death spiral | New York Post
Suckaaaas!
I am glad I have a Cadillac Plan... if the Democrats touch that all the sh*t will hit the fan! That is the ONLY reason Obamacare keeps above water... kicking that Cadillac Plan Tax can down the road. Keep kicking that can!
New York enters the ObamaCare death spiral | New York Post
Suckaaaas!
I am glad I have a Cadillac Plan... if the Democrats touch that all the sh*t will hit the fan! That is the ONLY reason Obamacare keeps above water... kicking that Cadillac Plan Tax can down the road. Keep kicking that can!
If I was one of those New Yorkers getting the shaft, why I'd dig out my Obama phone and give someone a piece of my mind.
... I really that angry
... I really that angry
a monthly bill of $ 0.00 is always ok
as for "shambles", Massachusetts has the lowest uninsured rate in the USA:
https://www.healthinsurance.org/massachusetts/