Do it Yourself Health Care Reform
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
The problem with shifting people to Medicaid is that states are required to share the costs with the federal government, and have to pick up anywhere from 24% to 50% of the expenses. States are already going broke, and many have Constitutions requiring balanced budgets. That means (and we're already seeing it happen) they are cutting Medicaid services and dropping out entirely of the program.
By passing and signing that healthcare legislation, Obama and Congress were working to protect the insurance and pharmaceutical industries' profit-making, not get affordable quality medical care for Americans. That's the problem.
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