Why We Should Pass On An Even Bigger Glass of Medic-Ade - Granite Grok

Why We Should Pass On An Even Bigger Glass of Medic-Ade

medicade- Looks refreshing, but always comes back to haunt you laterWe’ve already given you plenty to chew on when it comes to the wild abandon with which New Hampshire’s progressives are clamoring for billions in Federal buy-offs.

The Republican Senate is happily negotiating out surrender to DC with some spin, but at the end of the day Billions come with strings, which become webs that entangle us.  Local control and responsibility appear to be sacrifices they are willing to offer up to the DC Gods in exchange for not having to explain why taking it is still the wrong thing to do.

The Democrats are to DC cash like sharks to blood in the water.  They don’t care if in the long run we (and by we I mean taxpayers) lose hundreds of millions in the deal, they just want to sink their socialist canines into Federal money; they like the strings, webs, and entanglements that inevitably choke and constrain us.  Any chance to give up local control and they are there.

Then there is this:

Medicaid in its current form is riddled with waste, fraud and abuse.  Even more of it–that bigger ‘anything-but-refreshing’ glass of Medic-Ade, will come complete with a healthier helping of waste, fraud, and abuse.  That means that the existing bureaucratic “infrastructure” will not be big enough to manage either the redistribution of other peoples wealth, nor the redistribution of additional wealth squeezed out of Granite Stater’s becasue taking the “free-money” will actually cost us hundreds of millions more than not taking it at all, nor to combat the endless and additional waste fraud and abuse that comes with even more of a bad thing.

Oh, you forgot?  Medicaid is a disaster.  It specializes in unsatisfactory care, declining, access, and ewer options.  And when the cost of nationalizing health care rises from well-meaning fantasy into the burning light of reality–as other lies from the left have in recent weeks–you will discover that the progressive ruling class can and will happily cut benefits to offset rising costs, that are predictable and preventable but only in a truly open market with competition–something Democrats were strangling even before then State Senator Jeanne Shaheen screwed us over with her BCBS rewarding SB711.

Nothing is free.

Expansion will cost New Hampshire Millions annually above and beyond any paid for start up costs, money we already don’t have in the budget in a struggling economy.

Medicaid is a program that is easy to defraud which will add millions more in “unexpected” costs every year for policng and prosecution.

And let us be honest.  It is a promise the Federal government can’t keep.

As a state we are already on the hook for large sums of support from the Feds, a problem we should be trying to back-peddle from not rush into deeper.  Adding more is not just asinine, it is suicide.  People will believe the promises that can never seriously be kept by a government 17 trillion in debt (with over 100 trillion in other un-keepable promises), and then cut loose with no safety net.   It is better to find ways closer to home, with more stability, even it is harder at first, than to lie to them, grab at the cheap promises of distant, unaccountable politicians, who will just point fingers and shift blame when the inevitable benefit-cuts or even a default on the promise, and very real New Hampshire citizens are suffering.

You are not doing anyone a favor except your selves.

Just say No.  Don’t Drink the Medic-Ade.

 

 

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