{"id":7746,"date":"2010-11-12T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7746"},"modified":"2010-11-12T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T19:00:10","slug":"will-obamacare-force-states-to-drop-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7746\/will-obamacare-force-states-to-drop-medicaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Will ObamaCare Force States to Drop Medicaid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Foundry blog at the Heritage Foundation there is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/11\/12\/morning-bell-the-obamacare-burden-to-your-state-budget\/?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell\" target=\"_blank\">a crisp analysis of the cost-cutting decisions being weighed by states<\/a> threatened with billions in rising health care costs under ObamaCare.\u00a0 With a massive, mandatory expansion of Medicaid rolls beginning in 2014, state budget writers are seriously considering dropping out of the Medicaid program in order to avoid bankrupting their treasuries.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, it\u2019s outrageous that the liberal elites running Washington, D.C. are forcing state governments to spend more of their taxpayers\u2019 money on health care.\u00a0 After all, the States didn\u2019t get to vote on ObamaCare.\u00a0 But too often in this debate there\u2019s a simple \u2013 though difficult \u2013 solution that up until now hasn\u2019t been mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Opt out.\u00a0 The only way the federal government can dictate spending and policy decisions to the states is if the states agree to the terms.\u00a0 Those terms are buried in the fine print of federal programs that condition receipt of federal money on compliance with federal policies.\u00a0 Like dramatically increasing Medicaid rolls.<\/p>\n<p>Though opting out of Medicaid will be difficult because it also means losing the matching funds that come with it, the renewed control over a state\u2019s budget should give state legislators much more room to maneuver during this era of dwindling tax receipts.\u00a0 Governments, like individuals, need options.\u00a0 Opting out of Medicaid is an important first step to regaining state sovereignty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Foundry blog at the Heritage Foundation there is a crisp analysis of the cost-cutting decisions being weighed by states threatened with billions in rising health care costs under ObamaCare.\u00a0 With a massive, mandatory expansion of Medicaid rolls beginning in 2014, state budget writers are seriously considering dropping out of the Medicaid program in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,232,35,2073,839,2074],"class_list":["post-7746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-medicaid","tag-obamacare","tag-state-sovereignty","tag-tenth-amendment","tag-unfunded-mandate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7750,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions\/7750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}