His chickens are coming home to roast.

The states cannot absorb all the people that are lower income that don’t want to pay for insurance at work, and would rather be on Medicaid. The only answer is not to expand it in your state.

There will be an enormous demand if the rest of the 47 million who take food stamps now all want to be on Medicaid too. It is impossible.

No escape from big tax!

astonerii on December 2, 2012 at 12:49 PM

Do you pay for Tri-Care Prime?

hawkdriver on December 2, 2012 at 12:58 PM

If you come back, I’d be interested to know. There’s more talk about cutting us from it to force us to the state exchanges. That will probably triple my medical insurance to start brand new at 53 with a pending joint operation. I’ll probably try to have it done sooner than I really need to get it done.

I recall you talking about your migraines. So, this wouldn’t be good news for you either.

Some of the increase in Medicaid costs at the state level will be offset by decreases in expenses currently created by uncompensated care to the uninsured, as the Kaiser study points out.

LOL. Who’s going to stop illegals and others from being uninsured? Who’s going to stop people (who are insured) from just going to the emergency room whenever they or their kids have a sniffle – as they’ve always done and will continue to do? The idea that people who are used to just popping into an emergency room for no reason are, all of a sudden, going to make appointments with doctors and wait to be seen, instead of just acting the way they’ve always acted, is pure insanity. I get a real kick out of people who try to propagate this transparent lie.

There will be no reduction in the costs of handling the uninsured and those who are insured but refuse to follow the rules regarding emergency room visits. That will stay the same or even increase while we will have pressure on the rest of the system, too.

To say that ObamaScare is an asinine, imbecilic disaster (apart from being totally un-Constitutional and as un-American as it gets) is an understatement of huge proportions.

No escape from big tax!

astonerii on December 2, 2012 at 12:49 PM

Do you pay for Tri-Care Prime?

Not only do Red States have more federal lands and military bases, but Blue states are primarily characterized by having a critical mass of the state’s population living in the metropolitan area of a major city (or two or three). Which means the state governments can pass a lot of things like road maintenance, highway enforcement, and state law enforcement to the cities and their metros. So the state itself is not asking for, say, highway funds or the like—they leave that to the cities. Which is why, in part, the cities are going bankrupt.