Sebelius Clears the Way for Arizona to Shed Adults From Medicaid

[tucsonlib]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/us/16arizona.html?scp=8&sq=arizona&st=cse


Oh, sorry. This will only apply to childless adults. And childless adults (like me) accept the fact that our lives are less valuable than those of mommies and daddies. Damn! - If I had known this would happen I mightn't have been so conscientious about practicing "safe sex" all these years.


But if I can do my part to help balance the state budget and prevent tax increases, then go right ahead, Jan - SHED MY WORTHLESS, CHILDLESS ASS!

[mvccd1000]

1. That's a tough one...

I'm also childless, and soon to be jobless, so I presume I'll be affected. As the article pointed out, however:

The law calls for a major expansion of Medicaid eligibility in 2014, when all states must begin covering low-income adults.

A handful of states, including Arizona, have already been doing that, with the federal government agreeing to pay its usual matching share of the cost. Five other states currently cover childless adults on waivers that expire on a rolling basis over the next three years.

Arizona’s expansion, which was approved in a referendum in 2000, initially was financed with proceeds from cigarette taxes and a tobacco lawsuit, but that money became insufficient in 2004. The state’s general fund has been making up the difference ever since. Eliminating the coverage would save $541 million, closing nearly half of Arizona’s budget gap for the coming year.

They enacted this thing thinking it wouldn't hit the general fund, and then (much like the alt fuels fiasco) it sounds like it blew up in their faces.

[lonestarnot]

2. I've been sick or I would be doing more. I hope you're voicing your

dissatisfaction where it will matter.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

3. I am relying on my Jan Brewer VooDoo doll ..... it's the best hope I have.

does anyone know where she gets her hair cut?:sarcasm:

[aikanae]

4. Brewers son is a childless adult

Do you think she'll start paying for him - finally?

Stupid thng is that childless adults included disabled and they were paid under SHIP at 75% reimbursement rate. Now the disabled will be moved to the old category of apx 54%. The state will loose money on them too. They will loose twice as much federal funds coming into the state. Watch ... they are laying the groundwork to pull out of all Medicaid. Pearce wants to accept no federal funds for anything.