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Exploring Medicaid Options

… thirty years ago, Michigan's Medicaid program has ballooned into … elderly who currently receive Medicaid benefits hangs in the balance. Many reasons explain Medicaid's explosive growth. To begin … health care to the poor, Medicaid now includes long-term care … government policy within the Medicaid program has inflated health …

Medicaid Expansion: Beware of Obamacare 'Gifts'

If it sounds too good to be true ...

… undertake a huge expansion of Medicaid, something originally mandated … ruling on the law last June. Medicaid is a government welfare program … will set up here. Unlike Medicaid, this entire cost comes out … would still be eligible for Medicaid, as they are currently. … like: State's share of the Medicaid expansion costs x  Number …

Tax-and-Spend Interests Pushing Medicaid Expansion

… optional state Obamacare Medicaid expansion, not just in Michigan … especially high numbers of Medicaid patients, states that don’t … would be considering their Medicaid spending itself as a key … That makes sense, because Medicaid is by far the largest source … to cover 90 percent of the Medicaid expansion’s cost from the …

Medicaid Now a 'Reform-Proof' Entitlement

Imposing 'healthy behavior' conditions on Social Security next?

… provision in the Obamacare Medicaid expansion bill that was passed … hoops. In the public mind, Medicaid falls somewhere between. … impose some conditions on Medicaid beneficiaries. Here’s how … Michigan Legislature: Because Medicaid is now a critical component … covered by the expansion. Medicaid has been transformed into …

Medicaid Expansion: A Battle Over Two Views

Historic opportunity to reform Washington, D.C.

… conflict over the issue of Medicaid expansion. This is a classic … the historic perspective. Medicaid expansion is the top issue … not force states to expand Medicaid. However, expansion of Medicaid is a critical step in the … Obamacare. Gov. Rick Snyder wants Medicaid expansion. In essence his …

SEIU Takes $28M from Medicaid Fund

Michigan’s ability to provide Medicaid coverage is $28 million short over the last five years as that much money has been funneled to the SEIU in the form of “dues” taken from home health care aides who were forced into the union, according to The Washington Times. Capitol Confidential broke the story, …

Hospital Lobby Driving Medicaid Expansion

Jack McHugh's Senate testimony on Obamacare

… Legislature approves the Medicaid expansion — and it is willing … happen. It's explained by the Medicaid expansion "1-2-3": 1. The … plain English, what "expand Medicaid" really means is the Michigan … managed care contracts (think Medicaid HMOs). This increases to … afterthought, but will taxpayers (and Medicaid beneficiaries) get a good …

New Mackinac Center Study Cautions Against Relying on ‘Waivers’ to Reform Medicaid

‘Waivers are temporary but expansion is forever’

… legislators who favor expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care … director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations at the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services. Alt and Stewart describe how Medicaid waivers work and outline … such waivers to reform their Medicaid programs: waivers are temporary, …

Commentary: Medicaid Expansion Wrong Even with Reforms

… Legislature as conditions for accepting the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. But what if lightning struck and … proposed by John Goodman and others are another. On Medicaid for the poor, Florida think-tanker Tarren Bragdon is promoting a reform he calls the “Medicaid Cure,” which is actually underway as a pilot …

New Medicaid Study: ‘Waivers Are Temporary, Expansion Is Forever’

… by adopting the Obamacare Medicaid expansion states can gain … administration will weaken the Medicaid requirements that they fought … said. "No state should expand Medicaid based upon the illusory hopes … inadequate to genuinely reform Medicaid's ills." In the study, Alt … flexible and cost-effective Medicaid program may be "illusory." …