Medicaid Expansion - State Policy Challenges Discussed - Granite Grok

Medicaid Expansion – State Policy Challenges Discussed

Early on in this audio Dr. Garboyes, talking about Medicaid and the effort to expand it, brings up an essential point.  The assumption by ObamaCare and Medicaid expansion advocates is that their solution will give you health care you both want and need.   And wheter you are paying or think you are getting a fee ride, Dr. Garboyes explains the crux of the problem.  “…the idea is to spend a whole lot of money to buy people insurance cards. There’s a big difference between having an insurance card in your wallet and actually getting health care…and there’s a big difference between having “health care” and actually getting health.  Medicaid breaks down at both of those levels.”  (As does, and will ObamaCare.)

Well worth listening to, especially if you think expansion in New Hampshire i sstill even remotely a good idea and you happen to be a legislator contemplating expansion in the Granite State.

Here is the audio from Mercatus.org

Dr. Robert Graboyes recently discussed the ACA’s impacts on Medicaid and challenges facing states considering Medicaid expansion on Mercatus’ Inside State and Local Policy podcast. In a mere 20 minutes, Dr. Graboyes discusses principles legislators may consider while attempting to improve opportunities for health, strengthen the healthcare system, and why the two are might not be the same mission.

H/T Greg c/o Facebook

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