The Governor of Tennessee says he wants to expand Medicaid benefits to able bodied people who don’t work using ObamaCare. And he says it won’t cost the state anything. Sure. And the Loch Ness Monster and the tooth fairy live in Tennessee.
According to the Wall Street Journal, ”Mr. Haslam said that under his plan, the state would take federal dollars to extend coverage to individuals who earn up to $16,100, and set slightly higher limits for larger households. He pledged the extension would run for two years, initially as a pilot program, and that the state wouldn’t incur any additional costs.
So get this straight. The Governor thinks he can expand Medicaid for only two years. And then the hospitals will pay everything presumably by tacking a surcharge on bills or else the new entitlement goes away.
http://www.theindianalawyer.com/judge-blocks-medicaid-fee-cut-to-pharmacies/PARAMS/article/26730
No. Entitlements rarely go away. And believing Tennessee taxpayers can get ObamaCare expansion for nothing s like believing the Abominable Snowman hangs out at Graceland.
ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion will cost North Carolina taxpayers $3 billion. And it’ll be like the Bates Motel in the classic movie Psycho. Norman Bates will let us check in but he’ll never let us check out.