Vol. 34, No. 14
July 23, 2018
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With Medicaid and Other Entitlements Going Bust, Adding Dependents Would Hasten the Collapse
Item: Medicaid, especially the possibility of expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare), has become a hot issue in several states. In Oklahoma’s gubernatorial race, for example, the candidates are split — by party — over expanding Medicaid, “the state-federal health care program for the poor,” noted the Oklahoman on June 17.
The partisan difference is stark. “‘With the Trump administration still working to transition away from Obamacare and toward a more robust private health insurance world, I believe it is wrong to expand Medicaid at this point,’ Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb, one of the leading Republican candidates, said last week.”
As the paper said: “If a Democrat wins the gubernatorial race, there will be an immediate push to add more than 200,000 Oklahomans to the Medicaid rolls.”
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