As states across the country are moving to expand Medicaid coverage to additional low-income people under the Affordable Care Act, lawmakers in Arizona want to take the opposite approach. On Friday, Gov. Doug Ducey (R) approved a measure that seeks to tighten the state requirements for Medicaid eligibility, ultimately limiting public health insurance to fewer residents. The legislation proposes requiring the program’s recipients to be employed in order to qualify for assistance and kicking them out of the program after they’ve been enrolled for five years. A nearly identical bill was vetoed last year by former Gov. Jan Brewer (R) — one of the Republican leaders who bucked her party and embraced Obamacare’s optional Medicaid expansion when she was in office. In 2014, Brewer estimated that a five-year limit on Medicaid benefits would drop nearly 213,000 adults and 253,500 children from the rolls. She said that, since all of those newly uninsured people would end up seeking uncompensated care at hospitals without any insurance to pick up the tab, Arizona’s health care system would be pushed to “the breaking point.” Ducey’s office, on the other hand, released a statement on Friday saying that the new legislation will “ensure that we have a responsible Medicaid program that protect taxpayers and provide care to those who need it the most.” So who does he think is going to pay the tab for all those newly-uninsured people when they head to the emergency room?
You've got to question this article based on the false assertion made in the first sentence. There is not a single state that does not have expanded Medicaid coverage currently that is moving to expanding Medicaid coverage to additional low-income people. A Democratic state representative talking about it is very different than a Republican state moving to do it.
Maybe this is one reason why many states don't want to expand medical coverage... Report: Rural hospitals get billions in extra Medicare funds http://www.wral.com/report-rural-hospitals-get-billions-in-extra-medicare-funds/14501186/ A law that allows rural hospitals to bill Medicare for rehabilitation services for seniors at higher rates than nursing homes and other facilities has led to billions of dollars in extra government spending, federal investigators say. Most patients could have been moved to a skilled-nursing facility within 35 miles of the hospital at about one-fourth the cost, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general said in a report being released Monday. Hospitals juggling tough balance sheets have come to view such "swing-bed" patients as lucrative, fueling a steady rise in the number of people getting such care and costing Medicare an additional $4.1 billion over six years, the report said. (More at above url)
stupid is buying the lie that, "The more money you spend on healthcare the healthier you will be...and...cough cough (let me take a drink)..IT CURES HOARSNESS!"