See, It's Not Just New Hampshire - California Underestimated Medicaid Costs Too... - Granite Grok

See, It’s Not Just New Hampshire – California Underestimated Medicaid Costs Too…

Where Trump should build the wall
Now, more than ever, this is where Trump should build the wall

The incoming Sununu administration discovered a $65 million dollar hole at the New Hampshire Department of Inhumanly High Health Services ((NHD(i)HHS)) thanks mostly to expanded Medicaid costs they had not anticipated. Seriously? We here in our humble shop knew it would happen from day one. We knew that the Federal contribution wasn’t “Free Money™.” And we have predicted, some with more diligence than others, that left to its devices it would be the end of New Hampshire’s no tax advantage.

All of these things are true no matter how smart our detractors think they are or the vocabulary used to disagree with us and the NHDHHS Budget bomb is more proof.

Now. If you’d like to see what this will look like down the road, California is proving once again to be an excellent example of what happens when you let liberal ideas and progressive narratives drive your decision making.

$1.9 Billion (in just one year) is serious money, even in California.

New Hampshire can look forward to seeing its budget hole escalate into the hundreds of millions if it doesn’t find a way to roll it back and limit it to those truly in need.

I think they should respond like liberals did to the ozone hole. We have to do something NOW!

Yes we do.

For every $1oo,000.00 in blown budget dollars fire bureaucrats at random in your state agency of choice until the books balance. I’d start at DES.

If that’s too much to ask then start with a work requirement, cost controls, income limits, and then fire bureaucrats in some random state agency, and kick the regulatory state they prop up out the door with them.

A more vibrant economy in conjunction with some strict rules for participants (and no just on Medicaid) cold save us from our past selves and brighten our fiscal future.

And this is important. Do not balloon the budget. If acting requires new and broader taxes, you are doing it wrong.

So, do they have the stones to do it or will they do what politicians do best? Kick the can down the road another few years?

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