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Posted: Jan 5, 2014

Probably the total # of state's enrollees. LOL - all Medicaid. Oops.

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The weakest and most vulnerable amongst us - sm

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and have the misfortune to need Medicaid and a mistake is made and you LOL.

The people who receive Medicaid in North Carolina are the blind, disabled, infants and children, seniors, people needing long-term care and you LOL.

We need to be prepared for more... - sm

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...nightmarish stories of ID theft, no proof of coverage, etc. We have become the laughingstock of the world! We have Silicon Valley in CA with the world's top technical brains, but who sets up the ACA? A computer company from a foreign country with a higher up who is the former college buddy of BO's wife. Nice going!

North Caroline did not expand MA under Obamacare - sm

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The problem with the North Carolina Medicaid system has nothing to do with Obamacare as North Carolina is one of the red states choosing to leave their poor without healthcare rather than helping them by working with the Medicaid expansion program under Obamacare. This Medicaid problem is the problem of the North Carolina State MA program. You might want to research your comments a bit more.

My comment stands in... - sm

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...the general sense, not in relation to NC.

EXPANSION OF MEDICAID - ProMT

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New Oregon Data, 01/03/2014: Expanding Medicaid Increases Usage Of Emergency Rooms, Undermining Central Rationale For Obamacare.

ObamaCare created a Medicaid time bomb. - ProMT

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The good news, if you want to call it that, is that roughly 1.6 million Americans have enrolled in ObamaCare so far.

The not-so-good news is that 1.46 million of them actually signed up for Medicaid. If that trend continues, it could bankrupt both federal and state governments.

Medicaid is already America’s third-largest government program, trailing only Social Security and Medicare, as a proportion of the federal budget. Almost 8 cents out of every dollar that the federal government spends goes to Medicaid. That’s more than $265 billion per year.

Indeed, already Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid account for 48% of federal spending. Within the next few years, those three programs will eat up more than half of federal expenditures.

And it’s going to get worse. Congress has shown no ability to reform Social Security or Medicare. With ObamaCare adding to Medicare spending, we are picking up speed on the road to insolvency. in some cases, Medicaid patients actually wait longer and receive worse care than the uninsured.

While Medicaid costs taxpayers a lot of money, it pays doctors very little. On average, Medicaid only reimburses doctors 72 cents out of each dollar of costs. ObamaCare does attempt to address this by temporarily increasing Medicaid reimbursements for primary-care doctors, but that increase expires at the end of next year. That’s one reason why so many Medicaid patients show up at the emergency room for treatment. They can’t find a doctor to treat them otherwise.

This not only increases the strain on already overburdened emergency room doctors, but increases the wait for those who arrive with real emergencies.

As bad as this is now, ObamaCare will make it worse by increasing the number of people on Medicaid without doing anything to increase the number of doctors treating them.

We don’t know yet whether the rush to Medicaid will continue. It may be that the troubles with the ObamaCare website might have skewed the early signups. But if ObamaCare really does lead to a massive expansion of this costly and inefficient program, that’s bad news for taxpayers, providers and patients.

If medical care was not the for-profit greedy - sm

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industry it is, then there wouldn't be a problem.

There should be no profit motive involved in a maintaining or curing person's disease.

That's just immoral.

You do realize that as - an MT...

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you are part of that "for-profit" greed, right? Would you consent to either typing reports or editing VR reports for free? I understand we don't get paid much, but you are an outgoing cost to a doctor or a hospital, just as is the nurse, receptionist, and electric company - a list of others who will not provide services for free.

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