If you believe ObamaCare will be deficit neutral …
then you must believe all of the following (via The Health Care Blog): Health reform adds a heap of new cost saving political obligations on Congress. A partial list: 1)that Congress not extend the five-year shelter for states from their share of the cost of a 15 million person Medicaid expansion (e.g. more than a 30% increase). Presently, states are sheltered from Medicaid cost sharing for this expansion until 2014, but then have to find $34 billion in new money to pay their share. States, who are drowning in Medicaid costs already, will press hard to have their existing matching...
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Tags: Congress, Health Care, Health Reform, Heap, Medicaid, Medicaid Costs, Medicaid Expansion, New Money, X85