N.C. Liberals Still Gung Ho About Medicaid Expansion

What is it about liberals and the welfare state?  Just the thought of expanding programs like Medicaid gets their nipples hard.  Do they believe enslaving people to government programs is noble?  Do they believe robbing citizens of their self-worth makes them morally superior?

The editorial board at the Charlotte Observer has been on a quest to expand Medicaid in the Old North State for the past eight years.  They are so gung ho about this welfare program that they’re willing to look past a $20 trillion federal debt and an additional $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities.  It doesn’t even faze them.  Here is an excerpt from their latest editorial:

It’s shameful that North Carolina has not joined the 33 states that accepted the federal government’s Medicaid expansion. It would mean some $13 billion in federal money for the state over the next decade, a healthier population and an economic boost, especially to hospitals and rural areas. It’s true that the state’s own Medicaid bill would go up some, but the federal government would pay 90 percent of the tab.


Republicans’ opposition has appeared to stem more from wanting to issue a political statement against Obamacare than from a detailed cost-benefit analysis. In fact, some Republican governors, including Indiana’s Mike Pence and Ohio’s John Kasich, saw the wisdom of the deal and accepted it.


Do the editors at this paper realize the federal government has the ability to print money and states don’t? As for the cost/benefit analysis I wouldn’t use Ohio as an example. Here is an excerpt from one of my post:

Averaged over Kasich’s first two budgets, Ohio Medicaid spending increased by 7.4 percent per year — according to numbers from Kasich’s own administration.

Kasich’s first two budgets covered fiscal years 2012-13 and 2014-15. Ohio’s Medicaid spending increased by 4.1 percent in fiscal year 2012, 2.5 percent in 2013, 10.6 percent in 2014 and 12.5 percent in 2015.

I truly don’t understand these people at the Charlotte Observer. They are so ideologically bent that no amount of reason will persuade them from committing one financial disaster after another.


Source:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article195656024.html


https://costonscomplaint.blogspot.com/2017/01/governor-john-kasich-is-januarys-rino.html?m=0