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Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom Health Freedom Minute May 28, 2015 States Have Buyer's Regret on ACA Medicaid Exp...

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Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom

Health Freedom Minute May 28, 2015

States Have Buyer's Regret on ACA Medicaid Expansion Expanding Medicaid to low-income childless adults was not supposed to break the bank. Experts said enrollment would be relatively limited. So governors and state legislatures grabbed the billions in new funds and ignored the fact that the promise of 100% federal funding for the expansion lasts only until 2017. Now enrollment in many of the 29 states is hundreds of thousands of people beyond projections. For example, Washington state, “beat its January 2018 sign-up goal in the first few months” of 2014. Under the law, states are not allowed to decrease Medicaid enrollment or they could lose the pre-Obamacare federal match in funding. Sometimes easy money should just be ignored. “Why States Should Not Expand Medicaid,” Grace Marie Turner and Avik Roy, Galen Institute, May 1, 2013. Politico Pro week of May 11

Presented daily by Twila Brase, President, Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom. The Health Freedom Minute is now heard in 41 states: Mornings M-Th at AM1280 (The Patriot) in MN and 91.5 AM WHKC (FreedomFM) in OH, afternoons on American Family Radio, and daily on the Bott Radio Network.

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