{"id":28566,"date":"2012-07-13T10:02:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/opting-out-of-the-medicaid-expansion-may-not-be-so-simple.html"},"modified":"2012-07-13T10:02:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T16:02:11","slug":"opting-out-of-the-medicaid-expansion-may-not-be-so-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/opting-out-of-the-medicaid-expansion-may-not-be-so-simple.html","title":{"rendered":"Opting out of the Medicaid expansion may not be so simple"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the stump-thumping speeches of some GOP governors, the move faces pushback in state legislatures, and doctors and hospitals aren't very happy about it, either.<\/p>\n

And it begs the issue, frankly. \u00a0There are folks without insurance who are going without care, or who are stuck in an emergency care system with delays that rival any horror stories pundits bloviate about national health care services. \u00a0_What are you going to do about those people?_ \u00a0The answer of "Nothing" doesn't seem viable any more.<\/p>\n

And, yes, it costs money. \u00a0So spend the money. And if that means taxes, that means taxes.<\/i> \u00a0Frankly, I'd rather pay more taxes than see bodies in the street — or than know that people are dying of disease because I was unwilling to go without a Starbucks latte once a week.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGov. Rick Scott has vowed to reject the expansion of Medicaid, a major plank of the health care law, but advocates for the poor and some players in the health care industry \u2014 especially hospitals \u2014 in…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Despite the stump-thumping speeches of some GOP governors, the move faces pushback in state legislatures, and doctors and hospitals aren't very happy about it, either. And it begs the issue, frankly. \u00a0There are folks without insurance who are going without care, or who are stuck in an emergency care system with delays that rival any … Continue reading “Opting out of the Medicaid expansion may not be so simple”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51770,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/17\/where-were-going-we-dont-pay-for-roads.html","url_meta":{"origin":28566,"position":0},"title":""Where we're going, we don't pay for roads!"","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Jul-15 6:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, we need to reform how federal highway and bridge money is raised (though, frankly, having a dedicated revenue stream may be more trouble than it's worth; everyone benefits from the Interstate system, whether they drive a hundred miles a day or none at all).But before we do that, we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27136,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/16\/do-half-of-americans-really-pay-no-taxes.html","url_meta":{"origin":28566,"position":1},"title":"Do half of Americans really pay no taxes?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Mar-12 6:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT REALLY AMERICANS!Wait. 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