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Posted 3/14/2010 9:06 AM CDT on Des Moines Register

I found an article in a search for understanding of the ramifications of Obamacare. Here is an excerpt:

…in the Senate bill, Medicaid expansion would be responsible for about 50 percent of the reduction in the uninsured population at a projected 10-year cost of $395 billion.

This approach was already tried in Tennessee. Under the TennCare program, uninsured Tennesseans were eligible to sign up for Medicaid. In addition, TennCare also enrolled individuals who were uninsurable because of pre-existing conditions and individuals not eligible for insurance through either place of employment or government.

The idea was that the state would squeeze savings out of its traditional Medicaid program through the use of managed care and this would offset the cost of this vast expansion in coverage. In essence, Tennessee officials promised a free lunch—a way to expand insurance coverage without increasing costs to the state.

Cost Explosion

Within months of the implementation of TennCare, enrollment swelled by half a million individuals so that more than a quarter of the state’s population was enrolled. While there was significant crowd-out of private insurance by government insurance—and thus increased burden on the taxpayers—the rate of uninsured individuals in Tennessee dropped substantially.

But at the same time, costs exploded. While inflation-adjusted per capita Medicaid spending across the rest of the states increased an average of 71 percent between 1994 and 2004, the corresponding increase in spending on TennCare was 146 percent. Tennessee’s Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen was forced to restructure TennCare dramatically beginning in 2004, calling the program “a disaster,” and stating he would not “let TennCare bankrupt our state.” http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/03/Obamas-Proposed-Medicaid-Expansion-Lessons-from-TennCare#_ftn3
This is what we are in for. Some say he’s trying to help the downtrodden. I think it is more sinister. I think it is a continuation of the Marxist Praxis that has been implemented in the country. if so, this healthcare takeover is necessary for the transformation of America into a, At best, a European style socialist state, at worst, a Marxist state. Don’t say it can’t happen; look at what happened in Germany.

Aaaah, what do I Know. Here, read about it yourself: http://www.discernment-ministries.org/TheAspenPaper.pdf

If you are more than a blathering ideologue, you will read and think.

If you are more than a blathering ideologue, you will find out about these people that put this together.

But if your not, you will have some cute one-liner to spew as a comment and you’ll jump to another blog where you can scan and get the gist of the story and spew another one-liner. Your choice isn’t it?

At least you have a choice, for now.