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The biggest Obamacare horror story of all
http://www.ibmadison.com/Blogger/Left-Business-Brain/November-2013/Scott-Walker-is-the-biggest-Obamacare-horror-story/index.php?cparticle=1&siarticle=0#artancScott Walker is the biggest Obamacare horror story
Oh, those Affordable Care Act horror stories. No doubt you’ve heard them. So-and-so’s 98-cent insurance policy was cancelled, and now she’s paying $3,000 a month for a plan with a higher deductible that only allows her to see flamboyantly gay Marxist nurse practitioners and requires her to have at least three government-funded abortions before any benefits kick in. And next on Hannity: The Benghazi story the rest of the media isn’t covering, because we just made it up literally 30 seconds ago. The allegedly leftwing media have been on a veritable feeding frenzy since HealthCare.gov belly-flopped onto the scene on Oct. 1. Sensing blood in the water, they can’t resist feeding the sharks their daily dose of chum.
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Like most Republican governors, however, Scott Walker refused to set up a state-run exchange, turning all that solemn conservative preaching about local control into so much piffle. Worse, he refused millions in federal funds to expand Medicaid, which drove up prices for consumers in the individual market and will likely prevent thousands of state residents from receiving health care coverage. (But hey, at least their dangerously inadequate insurance policies weren’t cancelled.)
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Under Wisconsin’s old Medicaid guidelines, adults with children were eligible for Badgercare up to 200% of the federal poverty line, while childless adults were ineligible. Under Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, all residents would be eligible up to 138% of the federal poverty line, an expansion that the government would fund at 100% for the first three years, and 90% after that.
Under Walker’s plan, Badgercare eligibility has been set at 100% of the federal poverty line for all adults, which means that tens of thousands of Wisconsinites are being thrown off of Medicaid, while hundreds of thousands are being denied Medicaid eligibility under the Obamacare expansion. While the Healthcare.gov snafu is the hot story of the moment, the fact that almost all of the patients referenced in this report should have been eligible for Medicaid seems relevant, especially since Griffin did report on the clinics’ success in enrolling patients in Medicaid.
Oh, those Affordable Care Act horror stories. No doubt you’ve heard them. So-and-so’s 98-cent insurance policy was cancelled, and now she’s paying $3,000 a month for a plan with a higher deductible that only allows her to see flamboyantly gay Marxist nurse practitioners and requires her to have at least three government-funded abortions before any benefits kick in. And next on Hannity: The Benghazi story the rest of the media isn’t covering, because we just made it up literally 30 seconds ago. The allegedly leftwing media have been on a veritable feeding frenzy since HealthCare.gov belly-flopped onto the scene on Oct. 1. Sensing blood in the water, they can’t resist feeding the sharks their daily dose of chum.
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Like most Republican governors, however, Scott Walker refused to set up a state-run exchange, turning all that solemn conservative preaching about local control into so much piffle. Worse, he refused millions in federal funds to expand Medicaid, which drove up prices for consumers in the individual market and will likely prevent thousands of state residents from receiving health care coverage. (But hey, at least their dangerously inadequate insurance policies weren’t cancelled.)
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Under Wisconsin’s old Medicaid guidelines, adults with children were eligible for Badgercare up to 200% of the federal poverty line, while childless adults were ineligible. Under Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, all residents would be eligible up to 138% of the federal poverty line, an expansion that the government would fund at 100% for the first three years, and 90% after that.
Under Walker’s plan, Badgercare eligibility has been set at 100% of the federal poverty line for all adults, which means that tens of thousands of Wisconsinites are being thrown off of Medicaid, while hundreds of thousands are being denied Medicaid eligibility under the Obamacare expansion. While the Healthcare.gov snafu is the hot story of the moment, the fact that almost all of the patients referenced in this report should have been eligible for Medicaid seems relevant, especially since Griffin did report on the clinics’ success in enrolling patients in Medicaid.
