Benefits of ObamaCare's extension of Medicaid

Some Republican governors and legislatures are playing stupid politics with their people's health.

The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Urban Institute have completed a study of the program and concluded that the ObamaCare extension of Medicaid would cover an additional 20 million people at a modest cost to the states.  We already knew from government analysts that the federal government will pay 100% of the costs for the first three years, declining to 90% thereafter.

But now the Kaiser/Urban study shows that states might even come out ahead, since this program will reduce taxpayer funded compensation for hospitals and health care providers for uncompensated medical bills.

And that's just in the accounting department.  Think of the human side of this:   20 million more people get adequate health care instead of doing without and winding up in ER's when it becomes a crisis.

It's stupid not to grab such a bargain.  It's even stupid politically in the long run.   You think when those 20 million people realize what they've been denied by conservatives governors just to spite Obama, they aren't going to vote them out of office?   They should tar and feather them and run them out of town on a rail.   Our own Nathan Deal should be at the head of the hounded pack.

Ralph