The Affordable Care Act’s big giveaway to stingy red states

[jaxx]

The Affordable Care Act’s big giveaway to stingy red states
Posted by Ezra Klein on July 3, 2012 at 8:43 am

Over the coming weeks and months, there’s going to be a new event in the Republican Party’s ongoing “No, I’m the most anti-Obamacare!” contest: refusing to participate in the law’s proposed Medicaid expansion. So far, the governors of Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana have already promised to do exactly that.

Ignore them. The deal the federal government is offering states on Medicaid is too good to refuse. And that’s particularly true for the red states. If Mitt Romney loses the election and Republicans lose their chance to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they’re going to end up participating in the law. They can’t afford not to.

<..> But, somewhat perversely, the states that get the best deal under the law are states like Texas, which have stingy Medicaid programs right now, and where the federal government is thus going to pick up the bill for insuring millions and millions of people. In states like Massachusetts, where the Medicaid program is already generous and the state is shouldering much of the cost, there’s no difference for the federal government to pay.



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Hard to believe states would be so vindictive that they would pass up 100% medicaid coverage for 2 yrs and see it slowly go down to covering 90% by 2020. But you can't fix stupid....and that covers the mentality of the red state governors.

[NJMaverick]

get a free ride from the 'big bad evil federal government" are the same people that get the most from it.

[jaxx]

(07-03-2012 07:58 AM)NJMaverick Wrote:  get a free ride from the 'big bad evil federal government" are the same people that get the most from it.

Yes, it is. As long as they mouth the platitudes they get by with it and the people vote them in. We don't want no big govmint, out of my cold dead hands, etc.