Paul Ryan Poll

[Hauldren Collider]

From what I understand, the governors fear that their states will be unable to roll back the medicaid expansions when the federal government stops ponying up, or that emergency across-the-board cuts will mean the federal government doesn't end up footing the bill in the short term anyway.

[DinoDoc]

Yeah, that's definitely why..

l2read?

After that, the states will pick up 5 percent of the cost through 2019, and 10 percent of the cost thereafter.

Mississippi already has an problem paying for Medicaid now. It can't afford an expansion.

[Ben Kenobi]

How does that even make any sense? Obamacare tries to help people like this, and certain states refuse to go along with it. Your comment (predictably) makes literally no sense.

What does Master Yoda say? Do or do not, there is no try. Obamacare's actual results screw the poor over. Glad to see you hard at work documenting evidence.

Are we supposed to give Obamacare points because it's so spectacularly inept as to try and fail hard?

[kentonio]

l2read?

Mississippi already has an problem paying for Medicaid now. It can't afford an expansion.

When the people in your state are suffering from a massive lack of healthcare and someone offers to pay between 100% and 90% of the cost of improving the situation then you'd be a fool to turn that down. Those states could very well raise the money with a relatively tiny tax increase, if the Republicans would stop signing ridiculous Grover Norquist pledges and get back to the real world.

From what I understand, the governors fear that their states will be unable to roll back the medicaid expansions when the federal government stops ponying up, or that emergency across-the-board cuts will mean the federal government doesn't end up footing the bill in the short term anyway.

Oh come on now, no governor honestly fears that the federal government is suddenly going to welch on its obligations, the very idea is absurd. They may use that as a feeble excuse for turning down such a generous offer from the federal government, but it's really not believable.

[Jon Miller]

What does Master Yoda say? Do or do not, there is no try. Obamacare's actual results screw the poor over. Glad to see you hard at work documenting evidence.

Are we supposed to give Obamacare points because it's so spectacularly inept as to try and fail hard?

Do you know what actually screws over the american people (including the poor)? The US current health care system.

JM

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Do you know what actually screws over the american people (including the poor)? The US current health care system.

JM

Agreed. Rollback Obamacare.

[DinoDoc]

Those states could very well raise the money with a relatively tiny tax increase

Is this conclusion the result of your obviously extensive research or more likely a knee jerk reaction?

[Jon Miller]

Agreed. Rollback Obamacare.

Obamacare makes it slightly better. Still bad.

JM

[Hauldren Collider]

No, Obamacare makes it far, far worse. From the Hoover Institute:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottatlas/2012/07/31/wheres-the-outrage-from-young-americans-about-obamas-health-reforms/

[Ben Kenobi]

Do you know what actually screws over the american people (including the poor)? The US current health care system.

Couldn't agree more.

[kentonio]

Is this conclusion the result of your obviously extensive research or more likely a knee jerk reaction?

If it means raising an extra billion a year long term, then it means the federal government must be contributing 9 billion a year. Does that not sound like a pretty small contribution to receive a much larger increase in funding?

Ffs, this is funding that will massively improve the lives of people actually living in the state, its not money being sent off to some giant fund in Washington.

[Nikolai]

Agreed. Rollback Obamacare.

What the US needs is a PROPER system, like the one we have in parts of Europe. We've had it for a while and have got some dead meat and rust on it, but still it works much better than the poor excuse for a system the US has.

[DinoDoc]

If it means raising an extra billion a year long term, then it means the federal government must be contributing 9 billion a year. Does that not sound like a pretty small contribution to receive a much larger increase in funding?

I'm talking about a state in which the entire budget is ~ 5 billion. It sounds like a large contribution to me.

[Hauldren Collider]

DinoDoc, There's no way Mississippi spends only $5 billion a year. Do you mean only the medicaid budget?

[DinoDoc]

DinoDoc, There's no way Mississippi spends only $5 billion a year. Do you mean only the medicaid budget?

I mean the entire budget. It is only 5.6 billion.