Whoever didn't see this coming is as dumb as the day is long. I know most doctors I see sent our letters stating Medicaid will not be accepted going forward to the New Year. Why pay for something you can't use or if you can use it the service will be junk.

Those temporary Medicaid reimbursement rates really are temporary

One doctor interviewed by the New York Times about the upcoming cut in Medicaid reimbursement rates calls it a "bait and switch," in which a seller promises one thing but replaces it with something less valuable. That label, however, misstates the situation with ObamaCare and its supposed cost-curve control. The bait-and-switch took place at the beginning, when the White House and Democrats temporarily suspended reimbursement cuts to Medicare and boosted Medicaid reimbursements, while using them both to paint ObamaCare as deficit neutral and attractive to doctors. This is more of a chickens-coming-home-to-roost moment:

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Quote from: Bronx on December 29, 2014, 10:17:22 AM
Whoever didn't see this coming is as dumb as the day is long. I know most doctors I see sent our letters stating Medicaid will not be accepted going forward to the New Year. Why pay for something you can't use or if you can use it the service will be junk.

Those temporary Medicaid reimbursement rates really are temporary

One doctor interviewed by the New York Times about the upcoming cut in Medicaid reimbursement rates calls it a "bait and switch," in which a seller promises one thing but replaces it with something less valuable. That label, however, misstates the situation with ObamaCare and its supposed cost-curve control. The bait-and-switch took place at the beginning, when the White House and Democrats temporarily suspended reimbursement cuts to Medicare and boosted Medicaid reimbursements, while using them both to paint ObamaCare as deficit neutral and attractive to doctors. This is more of a chickens-coming-home-to-roost moment:

READ MORE....

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/29/nyt-those-temporary-medicaid-reimbursement-rates-really-are-temporary/

One of the dozens of out-and-out lies told about KenyaCare since its inception is the inclusion of Medicaid enrollments in the KenyaCare sign-up figures. KenyaCare and Medicaid -- a program that's been around since 1965 -- are not even related, except in the fact that the gateway to both programs has been combined in the online KenyaCare exchanges. Medicaid is precisely what KenyaCare is struggling so hard not to be viewed as -- pure-D welfare, the simple forced redistribution of wealth from taxpayers to non-taxpayers. Medicaid and food stamps and WIC are all the same thing.

That's why the new Congress won't have much sympathy for the Medicaid program. It's a straight-out redistribution welfare program that has expanded tremendously under the umbrella of the forcible nationalization of the health care insurance market under KenyaCare. Medicaid enrollment expanded by nearly 6 million people in just the first half of 2014. Most of those newcomers were diverted to Medicaid through the KenyaCare exchanges. According to an in-depth analysis by the Heritage Foundation:

QuoteWhile most of the attention has focused on the new health insurance exchanges, the data indicate that a significant share of exchange enrollments were likely the result of a substitution effect—meaning that most of those who enrolled in new coverage through the exchanges during the open enrollment period already had coverage through an individual-market or employer-group plan. Given that increased enrollment in Medicaid accounted for 71 percent of the net growth in health insurance coverage during the first half of 2014, the inescapable conclusion is that, at least when it comes to covering the uninsured, Obamacare so far is mainly a simple expansion of Medicaid.

Let us never forget that KenyaCare is more than a revolting unconstitutional morass of conflicting provisions and impenetrable verbiage, aimed at subverting to the federal national government about 1/6 of the nation's economy. It is also, as our beloved Mr. Gruber is wont to testify in public places while being recorded, a law that depended for its very survival and eventual passage on deceit. KenyaCare is the product of a thousand lies, and the misrepresentation of new Medicaid signups as new KenyaCare clients is #1,001.

The law which created Medicaid, is also why Obammycouldcareless was a needless, ill advised, monkeying around with our healthcare system, one designed to "hide" in plain sight income redistribution.