To many Republicans, this indicates their Medicaid resistance has been hugely successful in screwing the poors.
Of course, some of these people have lost their jobs, so that they no longer pay taxes, and others have eventually required uncompensated emergency care, but that just another reason to make the government smaller.
Fox Drone: Hard to be sympathetic, if they only got off their behinds and became Investment Bankers, real state magantes like Trump they wouldn’t be needing handouts.
No, really? Shocking!
(I suppose that at least it demonstrates that GAO still has some independence, and that’s good.)
Yup. Because Trump, as we all know, is a self-made man who built his empire all by himself … except for the occasional million bucks here and there from daddy … and all the connections … and the fraud and grifting.
Can’t wait to get a peek into some of those tax records come January.
I will show he is “smart” and done his patriotic duty of not paying taxes.
I spent the last 20 years of my career working in medical case management. You do not need a report to tell you that when people are uninsured or have plans that do not cover their needed medications and therapies, they end up using hundreds of thousands of dollars in unnecessary emergency care. They come in, they get stabilized and are sent home with prescriptions for medications they cannot afford. The next time you see them they are back in the ER in diabetic coma or life threatening congestive heart failure or septic from infections that should have been managed easily if treated correctly from the start. One of the major savings inherent in universal health care is the notion that most people will actually do their best to take care of themselves when they can afford it. Most of the discussions about whether we can “afford” universdal health care are based on false assumptions too numerous to count - this is one of the most glaring.Every time I hear some asshole pundit say snarkily “how are you going to pay for that” I want to throw a rock through my TV.
Ah. You were being thoughtful, and I was merely being flip.
Opponents contend that the cost is still too high for states, which have other major financial responsibilities for education, infrastructure and law enforcement, and must balance their budgets.
That’s how it begins. Then…
Funny how the money they say they need for “other” things seems to mostly just find its way to law enforcement. I am willing to bet that the states that pass on Medicaid dollars are among the lowest in their investment in education and infrastructure - I don’t know it for a fact, I just know it.
Seems right, since they almost certainly are states that have passed a few tax cuts.
Budgets gotta balance, so their hands are tied. Nothing they can do. Nope.