WSJ Sells Medicaid Expansion Costs Short
“Some States Weigh Unthinkable Option: Ending Medicaid” reported Janet Adamy and Neil King for the November 22nd Wall Street Journal. And they do mention that “Medicaid has become one of the biggest items on state budgets,” but Adamy and King fail to mention just how much bigger a hole Medicaid is going to put in state budgets once the Obamacare mandates begin.
Starting in 2014 states must expand Medicaid to all non-elderly individuals with family incomes below 138 percent of the federal poverty level. At first, Obamacare picks up the first three years of benefit costs for … Continue Reading
Conn Carroll
November 23, 2010
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Tags: Janet Adamy, Medicaid, Neil King, Obamacare, The Wall Street Journal