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Sunlei

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5. Medicaid is non-profit & that's a huge savings in federal money right there.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Tue Dec 3, 2013, 12:27 PM

Dec 2013

If somehow every state could be made to expand Medicaid would be even more of a savings. All that Federal money should be out of state control totally.

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Report: Obamacare To Cost 'Billions Of Dollars Less Than Originally Projected' [View all] Botany Dec 2013 OP

Obamacare’s Secret Success Kolesar Dec 2013 #1

I am not terribly fond of this argument. Laelth Dec 2013 #2

Raining on the parade zipplewrath Dec 2013 #6

I hear you. Laelth Dec 2013 #7

And the *complementary set* of *non-ACA supporters* would be whom? Kolesar Dec 2013 #17

Ya beat me to it. malthaussen Dec 2013 #10

Precisely. n/t Laelth Dec 2013 #11

The point was never to save money, it should cost more marshall Dec 2013 #14

How many billions is that? OneCrazyDiamond Dec 2013 #3

So, we were lied to? Freddie Stubbs Dec 2013 #4

That's how the Teabaggers will see it, for sure. (nt) Paladin Dec 2013 #15

Medicaid is non-profit & that's a huge savings in federal money right there. Sunlei Dec 2013 #5

Part of the "saving" is sad - they don't put the millions on Medicaid in states that do not expand karynnj Dec 2013 #8

There are just as many Obama haters as supporters in those states who need Medicaid SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2013 #9

The purpose of the law is to save money. Gore1FL Dec 2013 #12

Guess they figure there'll be millions more DEAD by the time it all rolls out. blkmusclmachine Dec 2013 #13

Imagine how much more cost effective it would be... happyfunball Dec 2013 #16