Obamacare will redistribute federal dollars from blue states to red states. WTF???????????

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Medicaid is jointly administered between states and the federal government, and the states are given considerable leeway to set eligibility rules. Texas covers only working adults up to 26 percent of the poverty line. The poverty line for an individual is $11,170. So, you could be a single person making $3,000 a year and you’re still not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid in Texas. That’s part of the reason Texas has the highest uninsured rate in the nation.

Massachusetts, by contrast, covers working adults up to 133 percent of the poverty line ... It’s a big reason it has the lowest uninsured rate in the nation.

The Affordable Care Act wants to make the whole country like ... Massachusetts ... by telling states the feds will cover 100 percent of the difference between wherever the state is now and where the law wants them to go for the first three years, and 90 percent after 2020.

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The states that get the best deal under the law are states like Texas, which have stingy Medicaid programs right now, and where the federal government is thus going to pick up the bill for insuring millions and millions of people. In states like Massachusetts, where the Medicaid program is already generous and the state is shouldering much of the cost, there’s no difference for the federal government to pay.

That is to say, the less you’ve been doing on Medicaid so far, the more the federal government will pay on your behalf going forward. And that gets to an irony of the health-care law: Red states have, in general, done less than blue states to cover their residents, so they’re going to get a sweeter deal under the terms of the Affordable Care Act.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/03/the-affordable-care-acts-giveaway-to-stingy-red-states/

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Did you only want Obamacare to cover blue states?

Nothing like a bunch of healthy, gun toting, constitution loving, rednecks running around!

You asked for it you got it!

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Nothing like a bunch of healthy, gun toting, constitution loving, rednecks running around!

*shudder*

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In Mississippi, the poorest state in the country, they don't want to expand medicaid...

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In Mississippi, the poorest state in the country, they don't want to expand medicaid...

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Good to see conservative Republican states stick by their opposition to wealth redistribution, even when they stand to benefit.

A principled stand, gotta admire that.

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Good to see conservative Republican states stick by their opposition to wealth redistribution, even when they stand to benefit.

A principled stand, gotta admire that.

I like the part where it says

we have an exchange designed by Mississippians for Mississippians and operated by Mississippians

Translated into English, that means a clusterfck of morons who get everything wrong, repeatedly, and don't care. You should see how my medical insurance company is run.