Here in Maine the future of Medicaid Expansion rides on the gubernatorial election next Tuesday. Please get out and vote, and if you can help your local organization by giving another voter a ride to the polls, please do so. Either you favor assuring that poor people receive health care (including preventative check-ups, which are not available via the Emergency Room) or you dont. The free market doesnt work for poor people. Thats no reason to abandon the free market, but that is a reason to supplement it. When the keeners keen about the horrors of taking money from the Federal government, note that most of them live in states that already do. Not all states have expanded Medicaid, because the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that the expansion was optional. So governments in 23 states, most of them Republican-controlled, have blocked expansion, asserting that the cost could eventually become a state responsibility. But proponents of expansion say that will not be the case: Under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government pays all costs for newly eligible Medicaid beneficiaries through 2016, and after that the federal share never goes below 90 percent. Under traditional Medicaid, states pay a higher share — 26 percent to 50 percent.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:48:48 +0000
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