Medicad's Fine Print Results in Chaos for States & Citizens : The Devil IS in The Details

More chaos ahead for states that have joined the progressive socialist liberal Democrats in their efforts to destroy our health care system and replace it with 'single payer'. It seems inevitable as ObamaCare infest our nation's health care system with it's tentacles of control.

In the end, it's really all about making choices, some people have the intellect to see and understand the errors in a system and move to avoid them, while others take the easy way out and willingly  letting others make decisions for them. Letting others decide your fate  will always  result is lose of individual freedom and liberty.

Here's something to chew on for a few minutes that's part of the law,  participants that sign up for Medicaid will have to forfeit all their personal assets upon  their death to the state. What? Who Knew?

With the results of the last election more then apparent now, it has become clear that a majority of our fellow citizens are more then willing to allow themselves to be controlled. What sad state of affairs when a person no longer can comprehend the fruits of freedom, but willingly accepts tyranny as the rule of the day.
 
An Overview of Medicaid
Source: Jason J. Fichtner and John Pulito, "Medicaid Overview," Mercatus Center, December 11, 2013.
December 17, 2013

Medicaid was considered an afterthought to Medicare, but today more Americans receive health care coverage from Medicaid than from any other program, say Jason Fichtner and John Pulito of the Mercatus Center.

• State Medicaid participation is technically voluntary, but all states participate, with federal and state governments sharing the costs of the program.
• Eligibility for the program varies state to state, but participants cannot have income that exceeds a certain percentage of the Federal Poverty Level (today, that number ranges from $11,490 for a single person to $39,630 for a family of eight).

The Affordable Care Act originally mandated that states expand Medicaid, but after the Supreme Court's 2012 ruling, states now have the choice to decide whether to expand eligibility for the program.

• While the federal government is covering a significant amount of Medicaid expenses, state budgets are still affected.
• In 1967, when Medicaid started, it represented less than 3 percent of state budgets. Today, that number is at 24 percent and is likely to rise.
• According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, annual Medicaid expenditures are expected to increase by $500 billion between 2012 and 2021. That is a 108 percent increase.

If Medicaid spending continues on this trajectory -- even without state eligibility expansion -- the program is going to require increased state and federal resources.