How can anyone declare a federal government agency
is unbiased in the Age of Obama? Anyone
with common sense knows these bureaucracies are peopled with progressives whose
sole purpose in life is to expand the federal government and protect those who
adhere to their totalitarian ideology.
Can anyone say Hillary Clinton?
If it weren’t for Obama’s Justice Department she would be sitting behind
bars by now. Unbiased my ass.
So, I'm rather amused by an Associated
Press article on an unbiased report from “nonpartisan experts” at the
Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The nonpartisan experts at the CMS Office of the Actuary wrote in
their report that they were expecting costs to decrease in 2015. They had
reasoned that uninsured people who were putting off care would sign up for
Medicaid in 2014, the first year of expansion. The experts expected that
pent-up demand would ease in 2015, and per-person costs would drop. But the
opposite happened: Costs went up.
An Obama administration
spokesman says estimating the cost of a new health program is not an exact
science.
"It is
natural for estimates to change as new data become available, but the bottom
line is that a growing body of evidence shows that Medicaid expansion improves
the health of states' citizens, while reducing the burden of uncompensated
care," CMS spokesman Aaron Albright said in a statement.
Albright said that
the overall cost of the Affordable Care Act's coverage expansion is still lower
than estimated when the law passed in 2010. However, other variables besides
per-person costs enter into that overall figure. They include the total number
of people enrolled, which has been lower because many states have not expanded
Medicaid.
Really? Probably because
these scoundrels tried to dump those cost off onto the States. Sure, these D.C. creatures would help fray
the cost for the first three years, but after that who knows. Democrats are still trying to con States into
enrolling in this monstrosity.
In a recent report to Congress, the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services said the cost of expansion was $6,366 per person for 2015,
about 49 percent higher than previously estimated.
"We were told
all along that the expansion population would be less costly," said health
economist Brian Blase with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in
Virginia. "They are turning out to be far more expensive." Blase
previously served as a GOP congressional aide.
The new estimates
could be a warning light for Democrat Hillary Clinton, who has promised that if
elected president she would work to expand Medicaid in the remaining 19 states
that have not done so. Higher costs would make it harder for a President
Clinton to sell Obama's full-financing plan to Congress.
If the costs are higher than expected, then why would anyone want
to expand it? Maybe there is something
wrong with the law. Has anyone thought
about that? Are these people really this
stupid?
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