There are always unintended consequences to “do-gooder”
laws. Obamacare is a perfect
example. Many predicted that businesses
would dump their employees onto the exchanges.
What they didn’t see coming were local and county governments dumping
their employees and wards onto the federal taxpayers.
Backers
have promoted the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion as a way to
reduce health care costs for many Americans.
Multnomah County officials expect national health care
reform to cut the county's medical bills, too.
By enrolling jail inmates in nationally subsidized
healthcare -- best known as "Obamacare" to both the President and his
critics -- the county could bill the federal government for the cost of
providing some of them medical care.
County health department officials briefed
Multnomah County commissioners on
the issue this week.
In addition to saving the county money, enrolling inmates
in Obamacare would also mean a significant percentage will now have insurance
when their jail stay is done.
I see a lawsuit in the future. Inmates will find out that few doctors will
participate in their care causing a lack of service. They will decry cruel and unusual
punishment. Law abiding citizens have
been saying that since the inception of this monstrosity. What bank do we have to rob, to get our
advocate?
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