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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: skinowski who wrote (24267)	7/19/2012 11:51:16 AM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations of 42652

One of the features of ObamCare which was supposed to give coverage to additional millions of people was the proposed expansion of Medicaid. If I understand correctly, this part was nixed by the Supreme Court. The expansion still exists, and some states will presumably sign up for it. What was nixed was much of the ability of the feds to pressure states to sign up for it. It also appears that several States may opt against voluntary expansion. This means two possibilities: a) that millions of people will not get insurance, or b) the government will need to come up with (huge) additional funds to sweeten the deal for the States. Even if you get b, or if the Supreme Court had allowed the feds to make all Medicaid funds depend on accepting the expansion, you still would get a (or millions of people uninsured), the law was never going to cover everyone, not even if you ignore the parts of it that work against its proclaimed aim of expanding coverage. It's a mess. The only predictable outcome is that numbers of government employees and bureaucrats will go much higher. That and the number of private sector employees needed to comply with, or avoid, or game the system.

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