Don’t Tell John Kasich, But His Medicaid Expansion Could Cost Taxpayers $27.5 Billion By 2020

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Townhall:

We knew this was coming. In fact, anyone who has ever crunched the numbers for Medicaid expansion knows that the government health care program is a budget buster. The Foundation for Government Accountability has noted that on average, a state legislature needs to find two to three dollars in cuts in their receptive budgets just to save one dollar in Medicaid spending.

 

In Virginia, about a quarter of doctors aren’t accepting new Medicaid recipients. In fact, a 2011 University of Virginia Study showed that those without insurance actually fared better than those enrolled in this government program. But, alas, those who support hitching onto this public policy bandwagon, which is a key component of Obamacare, is due to the misconception that it helps the poor–and that it’s free money. Well, there is no such thing as free money, and most of the new people who are eligible for Medicaid benefits are able-bodied, childless adults who don’t work. Yet, back to Ohio, it’s Medicaid expansion has already run over budget, as Jason Hart of Watchdog wrote last month:

 

Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s expansion of Medicaid under the 2010 federal health law has cost taxpayers $7 billion in a little more than two years

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This is kind of a big deal in Wisconsin with people who follow politics closely, since Gov. Walker refused to take the Obamacare program here.

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How many Ohio Medicaid expansion enrollees have jobs?

 

Critics of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s push to expand Medicaid to childless, able-bodied, working-age adults warned the policy would be a disincentive to work.

 

A little over two years later, how many enrollees in Kasich’s Medicaid expansion under the 2010 federal health law are unemployed? No one — not even the Ohio Department of Medicaid — knows.

 

During budget negotiations last spring, ODM told Ohio Senate members that 43 percent of the enrollees in the Obamacare expansion referred to internally as “Group VIII” were employed.

 

http://watchdog.org/262396/many-ohio-medicaid-expansion-enrollees-jobs/