Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican leaders have vehemently opposed offering Medicaid to roughly 800,000 additional Texans on the grounds that
Medicaid is an inefficient government program.
... but the TX Repugs still want those Federal $$$.ing hypocritical cheaters.
sense? it's super complicated, and it's a he said/he said, so who knows?
Feds' goal, ACA, was to get poor people covered, insured, and get them health care. Sure sounds like TX gamed the system. but who really knows?
Obamacare Reduced Employment and Shrank the Economy - http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/ha...shrank-economy Below is the study:
The effect of Medicaid expansion on labor force participation of childless adults - a significant negative relationship between Medicaid expansion and labor force participation, in which expanding Medicaid is associated with 1.5 to 3 percentage point drop in labor force participation - http://gradworks.umi.com/10/10/10106085.html
"associated with"
is not proof, not causality. CNS, right wing nut bull .
The study is from Georgetown University.
ACA doesn't have or make premiums, it's all on BigInsurance, has been for 30+ years.
if ACA provably CAUSED something, then why do they say "associated with"?
the "economy" is extremely complex with Ms of factors, health care employment has gone UP, not down, since ACA started, and I'm not saying ACA provably caused the increase.
Georgetown U is Catholic Jesuit and Catholic orgs mostly, officially hate Obama for his ACA, contraception, abortion, and other policies.
Texas didn't want to expand medicaid because eventually the Federal $'s would run out and they'd be on the hook for the bill but Texas is still trying to get it's hands on as much of that Federal $ as they can. Uncle Sam doesn't like that...so they're having a fight.
Texas wants Medicaid money they say was promised; the Feds want a refund for funds disbursed.
I thought Medicaid was an evil, inefficient government program -- why would Texas want to participate in that?
oh, yeah, because Texas is too stingy to pay for it's own healthcare, so the Feds -- meaning you, me and everyone else in the US -- should pick up the tab.
Texas preaches water but drinks wine
gubmint wine
if we didn't, we'd have to raise taxes
why does Texas think the USG should pay for its private hospitals?
Do you want to require Medicaid recipients to only go to county/non-profit hospitals?
Not at all. Just pointing out how Texas talks from both sides of its mouth when it comes to federal money and socialized healthcare.
Texas bad mouths both with its hat out.
EpiPen Maker Dispenses Outsize Pay
Mylan, lambasted for raising prices, ranks No. 2 in U.S. drug industry in executive compensation
The drugmaker buffeted by the furor over hefty price increases on its lifesaving
EpiPen had the second-highest executive compensation among all U.S. drug and biotech firms over the past five years,
paying its top five managers a total of nearly $300 million,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/epipen-m...gn=pubexchange
Just another example of BigCorp LOOTING Amreica and American's wealth.
iow, this is what you get from the VRWC's "free market capitalism", and
the Repugs "leaving everything to the private sector under NO regulation"
Are you advocating that the government decide what people are allowed to pay their employees?
no, I'm advocating that govt should regulate drug prices, like all other industrial countries.
Mylan and Pharma Bro typify the BigCorp bags profiteering off diseases, death, and damn near everything else Americans have or need.
in the case of Federal minimum wage, yes. Should be $15 immediately, indexed to inflation, and increasing the $25 in 10 years.
http://wolfstreet.com/2017/01/24/jud...s-breakup-fee/On Monday, a federal judge blocked Aetna’s $34-billion acquisition of Humana. Combined they would have formed the second largest health insurer, behind the also under-attack Anthem-Cigna merger. The court cited an rust grounds related to Medicare Advantage insurance plans, where their combined pricing power would ultimately raise the costs that consumers pay for coverage.
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