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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Tue Jun 4, 2013, 07:14 AM Jun 2013

Walker The Wishdoctor

http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2013/06/walker-wishdoctor.html

Yet another nonpartisan, nonprofit group has come to the same conclusion - Walkercare won't work (emphasis mine): A new national study from the RAND Corporation says states choosing not to expand Medicaid under federal health care reform will leave millions of residents without health insurance and increase spending, at least in the short term, on the costs of treating uninsured residents.

Wisconsin is among the 14 states studied in the analysis, which examined the impacts of Medicaid expansion on insurance coverage, federal payments into the states and state spending on care for the uninsured. “Our analysis shows it’s in the best economic interests of states to expand Medicaid under the terms of the federal Affordable Care Act,” said Carter Price, the study’s lead author and a mathematician at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.



The study says that if the 14 states decide not to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, as intended by their governors, those state governments collectively will spend $1 billion more on uncompensated care in 2016 than they would if Medicaid is expanded.

The study also says that failing to expand Medicaid could have more than financial consequences. The study estimates that an additional 19,000 deaths could occur annually if the 14 states studied do not expand Medicaid.



Yes, but how would Walker punish people to satisfy his base if he allowed them to have healthcare?
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Walker The Wishdoctor (Original Post) Scuba Jun 2013 OP
Mother Jones had a story on that.... mojowork_n Jun 2013 #1

mojowork_n

(2,354 posts)
1. Mother Jones had a story on that....
Tue Jun 4, 2013, 09:40 AM
Jun 2013
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/meet-governors-rejecting-expansion-medicaid

Thirteen state governors are refusing to implement Medicaid expansion, despite the fact that it's being offered with cherries on top: The Affordable Care Act's timeline guarantees that the federal government would pay for 100 percent of the expansion in its first three years, tapering down to 90 percent of the paycheck by 2020.


The incredibly stupid part of the Wisconsin alternative, as re-defined by Squatty Wanker, is:

Instead of expanding his state's Medicaid coverage, which already covered low-income individuals up to 200 percent of the federal poverty line (with an enrollment limit), Walker would hike that Medicaid eligibility back to 100 percent of the FPL, remove the enrollment limit, and set up a health exchange to provide private insurance to other low income groups.


But at least he's consistent. If you substitute "transportation policy" for "Medicaid" it's what he's done here for road-builders. Not a dime to be spent in the state (except for part of the cost of maintaining the existing networks) to expand anything except freeways. (Not a dime to be spent in this state to expand anything except existing private insurance company care.) Don't want to bite the hand that feeds you.....

So instead of taking a bus or riding a train, once in a while, the poor will be able to drive their SUV's and Hummer's on brand-new concrete ribbons, when they want to go out of town. And by combining efficiencies in the governor's plan, the uninsured poor who have to get to a hospital or doctor's appointment will get "health exchange" credit/reimbursement for the gas they spend, to drive themselves to their medical appointments. (Probably write-off's in there, too, to reimburse the poor for any chauffeurs or other employees the poor might have hired. Not to mention the cost of the splashy graphics across the sides of the vehicles, advertising poor-owned businesses to passersby, along the way to the medical appointment or hospital visit.)
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