Governor-elect Pat McCrory will officially take office on January 5, 2013. He has yet to decide if North Carolina will continue the Obamacare exchanges that his predecessor imposed upon the citizens of this state without the consent of the General Assembly. These exchanges are a Trojan horse that will cost the citizens of this state dearly. Carolina Journal reported the following:
“The majority of the Medicaid expansion is expected to happen through the exchanges,” she said. Some exchanges may cost a state like New Jersey between $10 million and 15 million a year to operate, and could cost California up to $300 million annually, she said.
“The way that they’re going to find these people is that they’re going to enroll online and people will actually be forced into Medicaid” if they meet a set of criteria, including earning incomes as high as 138 percent of the federal poverty level, Brase said.
“Obamacare requires insurance companies to take everyone,” even those with terminal illnesses who had no health coverage, Brase said. Rather than insurance, she calls Obamacare a third-party payment system with the government which insurance carriers will get preferential treatment.
“The biggest ones win,” she said “They will get all the money from the government and they will be doling it out, but they won’t be private entities anymore,” but more like regulated utilities.
And here is a revealing detail about these state-federal partnerships:
“These so-called state-federal partnerships are nothing more than a facade,” Brase said. “In addition to having states provide funding for these exchanges that has not yet been approved by Congress, pursuing a partnership authorizes insurance premium subsidies to be allocated to the state, threatening employers with penalties if employees receive subsidies on the exchange.”
“At the core, state-federal partnership exchanges are stealthy and deceptive,” Brase said. “Pursuit of such exchanges is another way that the federal government is attempting to control health care without footing the bill. In the end, such exchanges cost states and employers millions in operating expenses and penalties, and still invade the privacy of public citizens by sharing their health data with multiple government agencies.”
So far only 14 states
have opted for state based Obamacare exchanges; 22 have declined. Hopefully, Mr. McCrory won’t be so foolish as
to believe he can be a partner with the statist in the Obama administration.
Source: http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=9743
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