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WASHINGTON β The Obama administration often touts that people with pre-existing conditions and countless others can now get covered under ObamaCare. But there's another group that's starting to benefit from the law -- prison inmates.
Cash-strapped state and local prisons increasingly are using the Affordable Care Act to pay for their inmates' medical costs, taking advantage of a little-known provision that lets them shift some of those expenses to the federal government.
The states are gaming the system to offload their costs onto the federal government.
“It starts to look a little like a scheme by the states and local jurisdictions to avoid responsibilities that are really theirs,” he said.
Note that there are 2 issues - coverage for inmates and coverage for those released.
"Under the old Medicaid plan, the federal government would pay 58 percent of the cost of care (released prisoners) while the state and local government picked up the other 42 percent. Under the expansion of the Medicaid program under ObamaCare, the federal government would absorb 100 percent of the extra costs for the first three years which would then go down to 90 percent by the end of the decade.
The states are gaming the system to offload their costs onto the federal government.
βIt starts to look a little like a scheme by the states and local jurisdictions to avoid responsibilities that are really theirs,β he said.
Note that there are 2 issues - coverage for inmates and coverage for those released.
"Under the old Medicaid plan, the federal government would pay 58 percent of the cost of care (released prisoners) while the state and local government picked up the other 42 percent. Under the expansion of the Medicaid program under ObamaCare, the federal government would absorb 100 percent of the extra costs for the first three years which would then go down to 90 percent by the end of the decade.
The system is letting them do it. That's how bad it is, there are NO checks and balances built into it. Who else is gaming the system? Illegals for one, but the feds are letting them.
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