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As the HC Law implements Medicaid expansion, the States will receive Fed funding for that expansion thru 2020. Then the Fed portion will go back to what it is today. What Tex is responding to, is a significant increase in Medicaid people, that has nothing to do with the HC Law, everything to do with the economy. Texas is apparently thinking, since Medicaid is a voluntary service in the States, to H with those Texans that need it, they don't serve no good Repub purpose anyway. Hence, Texas, the Repub poster child.
And Texas is not the only state that is talking about this.
HC Law generated expansion will start taking place in 2014, the Fed will cover the expansion for the states until 2020 when the states will have to have figured out a way to cover the 40% they normally would for Medicaid, if they want provide that for their citizens. You were asserting, as was the idiot Texas Rep in the article Warren Chisum, that the current shortfall is due to the HC Law. It is not.
HC Law generated expansion will start taking place in 2014, the Fed will cover the expansion for the states until 2020 when the states will have to have figured out a way to cover the 40% they normally would for Medicaid, if they want provide that for their citizens. You were asserting, as was the idiot Texas Rep in the article Warren Chisum, that the current shortfall is due to the HC Law. It is not.
The problem is that the program is going to be expanded and will allow a greater number of people to participate. That 40% will be 40% of a greater figure..not the same 40% they pay today.
That is the difference..40% of a greater cost and once the mandate kicks in no state can change or end their program..they are committed to continue it even if they cannot afford it.
The problem is that the program is going to be expanded and will allow a greater number of people to participate. That 40% will be 40% of a greater figure..not the same 40% they pay today.
That is the difference..40% of a greater cost and once the mandate kicks in no state can change or end their program..they are committed to continue it even if they cannot afford it.
The HC Law does not change the fact that Medicaid is voluntary to States. I am not quite sure where you are getting your information, but I have certainly not read anything in he Law that says otherwise. If I am wrong, please point out where it say that.
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