PA Governor Calls Medicaid Expansion Unaffordable
You can't spend what you don't have
So ... Just who are these new government-funded patients supposed to see?
Will not accept Medicaid expansion or set up health exchanges
If you let yourself become dependent on a government program ...
Not a shock, considering how arbitrary it is to begin with
And if doctors all drop out, costs will plummet!
Only 13 states have signed on to the administration's scheme
State hopes to slow the growth of the plan's price tag
How do you recruit docs based on a sketchy, two-year arrangement?
State can't bar abortion providers from collecting Medicaid funds for medical services.
Supposed to last for two years, but many details have not been hammered out
Mississippi would get slammed after federal subsidies are pared back
Funding ineligible people, and spending money in questionable ways
It's not like Medicaid consumes much money or anything
But also says they can back out at any time, which suggests some face-saving is at hand
That's in addition to already projected Medicaid cost increases
They want to expand the program, but less than the feds require
The state still awaits federal sign-off
And there would be fewer rules binding states
Like many such programs around the country, it's teetering on the edge of collapse
The strapped federal-state medical program is clawing money back from everybody
State wants to raid a trust fund to delay the reckoning
Injuries caused by medical errors are no longer covered
Moody's says there's no credit risk in turning down Medicaid expansion
Abortion connection makes the organization's clinics political kryptonite
Lose money on each patient and make it up in volume!
Doctors fighting against downward trend in foreskin removal.
The government can't pay its bills, so skate them along to somebody else!
Governors want to see options before considering Medicaid expansion
To control costs and fend off federal intrusion, requirements become tougher to meet