saying that
states can opt out of medicaid expansion
for i'd god knows what reason
uh... it was uh...
fairly
ridiculous
ruling but never less
and uh... we know that at least uh... ten or eleven maybe up to sixteen n
signaled that they won't there's about seven or eight i think who have vowed
that they won't
republican governors saying they're not going to
but the federal government push them around
and provide
health insurance
or uh... poor people there
at what would be alternately probably a savings for the states
federal government defined a hundred percent of it for the first couple years
scaling back to ninety percent of full funding from the federal government
and of that other ten percent will prod the offset by the fact that the state
would have to deal
with all the implications of having so many people on a shirt
and aside from the uh...
political aspects of it and the cost aspects of it
a new study published of wednesday
online in the new wing linda journal of medicine
by some
harvard researchers
no slouch is up there
found that
when states expanded their medicaid programs
and gave more people health insurance this is going to come has a shock to you
fewer people
you know
god
and apparently
their shot not been many studies about this it's very hard to sort of control
the experiment
it was conducted by researchers from harvard school of public health
day analyze data from three states that it expanded their programs in the last
decade to cover a population not normally eligible
for medicaid you were called republicans were crying about this
recently
it provided low-income adults without children or disabilities
uh... medicare id a medicaid coverage
researchers looked at mortality rates in those states new york maine in arizona
five years before and after the medicaid expansions and compared them with those
in four nor neighboring states
pennsylvania nevada new mexico and new hampshire they controlled for all of
their social
an economic factors
and they found
that the medicaid expansions were associated with the decline of six point
one percent in deaths
twenty-eight hundred deaths per year for every five hundred thousand adults added
it was greatest among non-whites and people living in cork andy's
groups most affected by the xd extended care there is another study being done
by the same group in oregon
org index pandit its medicaid program in two thousand eight
but without money to cover everyone at first they chose ten thousand people by
lottery
they compared those of who got medicaid with those who did not and so far in
these results not conclusive
found that medicaid recipients e doctors more often in report better health
and better financial stability
medicaid
works
it's going to suffer a uh... our financial problem because of
the increased and health costs
put it this way it's not going to suffer any more of a financial implosion in
fact it will suffer less of one
than the private health insurance
industry
because the costs of medicine are rising
both for private insurers and for public insurers like medicaid and medicare
they happen to be rising faster and faster rate for private insurers
because the course
uh... medicaid and medicare have the capacity
too slow
the costs of madison in a way that private insurers
do not
so
it's not just about uh... federal government push me around i'll allow it
and some of the states it's also
i don't care if four people back
freedom
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