Medicaid directors issue warning on new ObamaCare repeal bill

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Source: the hill


By Jessie Hellmann - 09/21/17 09:07 PM EDT


The National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) warned Republicans on Thursday that the Senate's latest ObamaCare repeal bill would place a massive burden on states.

The bill, sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), would eliminate ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion and subsidies beginning in 2020, converting the funding to state block grants.

It would also change the federal government's funding of the traditional Medicaid program from an open-ended commitment to the states to a per-capita cap on each enrollee.

"Taken together, the per-capita caps and the envisioned block grant would constitute the largest intergovernmental transfer of financial risk from the federal government to the states in our country’s history," NAMD's board of directors wrote in a statement Thursday.

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[Achilleaze]

1. "Ha ha" - Republicans to Americans

The republicans don't give a shit. They just want to undo what the Black man did. Small. Sick. Sad.

[SamKnause]

2. Republicans are EVIL, sniffling, lying, scamming, cheating, cowards !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Stuart G]

3. k and r..I like the word.."ALL" thanks for posting this story

[QED]

4. They don't care - they just want that Koch money released.

There is no question who the GOP's employer is.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

5. Don't forget the Mercers..nt.

[Bengus81]

6. Come on now...Trump needs to buy a shit load of F35's.....

At about a BILLION each so to hell with the medical needs of our citizens. People will DIE of health related issues before little Kim gets within 10,000 miles of you.

[rtracey]

7. so here is the problem

So the problem here is this bill is not about the healthcare of Americans, but the fucking and wiping out of the former black man president's legacy. The right wing will take this country into hell to remove the name of Obama from the American history books. Every Senator voting for this bill does not give a shit about the people, just their own asses. Every Senator voting for this bill is the definition of a racist piece of shit. They get their healthcare, they get their pensions, they get their 174,000 a year. The only thing one can do to prevent things like this is to vote them out, but on that note....I wonder how many right wing fucks are saying, something like...so, I don't have healthcare anyway so I don't care, or how many lazy assed democrats are saying ..yeah fuck them vote them out, while sitting on their asses not bothering to get up and vote.

Face facts, and we can call, jump, scream, all we want, the ACA is going to go from a federal government program to a state government program, and the citizens who live in the state that are controlled by the GOP will end up losing.... the republican fucker governors and state government will be able to set their own standards and then kiss per-existing condition coverage, medicaid, etc good bye.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

8. Republicans want a selective confederacy

I suspect their ultimate motive is to establish a group of solid red states harboring all the American males who are healthy, working, conservative white Christian gun, wife and child owners with no outstanding medical issues, no criminal record, and that are only of European heritage. Basically, a laissez-faire utopia.

One will notice in all the photos of their press events, those present are white male Christians of European heritage with good paying jobs.

By passing laws and budgets that force all others to move to Blue states, most social costs are then borne by the "other".

After this process is complete, as a group of former states, they intend to secede and nationalize them as The Plutocratic Confederate States of America. They will not however, be joining the United Nations.

All Koch, Murdoch, Mercer, Coors and Walton family patriarch birthdays will be national holidays.

[harun]

9. They won't secede, they need the cheap labor. They have however been working

for some time to get a "Red Law" and "Blue Law" system.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. You're right, but I was being somewhat sarcastic.

Your line about red laws & blue laws is spot-on, as they're constantly pushing the limits of that in our Federal courts. I'm just convinced that several things they want enshrined into law will tend to force certain sectors of our population to move to more liberal areas, therefore relieving red states of many social costs.

On a number of issues, they seem to be hell-bent on states rights for economic and social independence, but want total Federal unification only when it suits their purposes. The United States will become even more fractured, and much less socially united (which they don't seem to give a damn about).

If they repeal the ACA without something equal or better to replace it, they're going to finally learn the hard way what the word "insurance" really means. Hopefully, most of them will become unemployed and have no health insurance, LOL. Unfortunately, the ones we vote out will get cushy jobs in right-wing think tanks or become lobbyists.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. But Republicans know better than everyone else

Just ask Trump. He knows more than his generals