The stats are rolling in. - Refusal to expand Medicaid Deaths

https://tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/11/14/floridas-refusal-to-expand-medicaid-cost-2800-deaths-report-says

...those who earn too much to receive Medicaid, but not enough to qualify for subsidies to buy a plan through the federal marketplace.
“What the report shows for the first time is the scale of the impact of that access and just how many lives are truly saved or lost because of the ability to connect to care and maintain that connection to care, particularly for people who have chronic conditions,”

For example, as more people gained coverage, hospitals’ uncompensated care costs — and thus, for some states, payments to hospitals to help cover those costs — fell. States also spent less on programs serving people with mental health or behavioral health needs since Medicaid paid for their treatment, and less on corrections as federal Medicaid dollars paid a greater share of the inpatient hospital costs of inmates eligible for and enrolled in Medicaid. And, in states that tax managed care plans serving Medicaid beneficiaries, increased enrollment has generated revenue gains that further offset the cost of expansion.

https://www.cbpp.org/health/medicaid-expansion-continues-to-benefit-state-budgets-contrary-to-critics-claims

People are so ignorant.  Stepping over dimes to clutch their pennies...AND willing to watch people  die. 

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