Here we go again -
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, all have been put on the table by Obama in the past and he's said they'd be on the table in the future.
And as far as your claim that "ACA greatly expands Medicaid", Obama expanded eligibility for Medicaid but that doesn't mean that Medicaid's services were also expanded. States are required to share costs for Medicaid with the feds, and at this time of record budget cuts by the states, states are making drastic cuts to what Medicaid will treat. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/us/05deficit.html?_r=1
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/us/05deficit.html
Obama's doing the punt to the states that Republicans are so notorious for, and what Reagan set into motion a couple of decades ago. The kind of society that Americans want costs what it costs. Shuffling the money around from the federal government to local and state government doesn't make it any cheaper -- It just makes it easier for the rich to steal.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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