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Related: About this forumStudy: Refusal to expand Medicaid is costing Texas billions
AUSTIN If Texas keeps refusing to enlarge Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, the state will pass up a heap of money, a new study has found.
In 2022, the state would pass up federal money for Medicaid expansion equal to more than twice its haul that year in federal highway aid, according to researchers Sherry Glied and Stephanie Ma of New York University.
Texas would forfeit $9.6 billion of federal Medicaid matching funds in 2022. Thats one-fourth of what the federal government expects to spend on defense contracts in the state that year, the study said.
No state that declines to expand the program is going to be fiscally better off because of it, said Glied, a former Obama administration health planning official who is dean of NYUs Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
More at http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20131204-study-refusal-to-expand-medicaid-is-costing-texas-billions.ece .
Lobo27
(753 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 5, 2013, 04:32 AM - Edit history (1)
I have lived in Dallas and Austin throughout my life and really love the cities. But at the rate the nut jobs are going the state will probably collapse.
mercymechap
(579 posts)us Democrats are working really hard to turn Texas blue again......and I think the Republicans are worried, they have all kinds of ads denying that we can turn it blue. But, with Perry making so many stupid mistakes, it shouldn't take long for more people to realize that Republicans don't really care about them, just their votes.
Suich
(10,642 posts)Rstrstx
(1,399 posts)The stupidity of it boggles the mind, and it's just because Rs don't want to see Obamacare succeed whatever the cost. I hope Wendy makes this point crystal clear and the Democratic party keeps pounding this issue into the ground until they get people to snap out of it and get their ass to the polls next November.