Now for the bad news. Today I read in the Arkansas Times Blog the article, Arkansas Republican leaders endorse “private option”, that was written by David Ramsey. I am very upset with my Republican friends in Arkansas who are endorsing Obamacare with this medicaid expansion in Arkansas with this “private option.”
After hearing Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute speak to Arkansas Republican lawmakers Nick Horton of the Arkansas Project wrote:
Today I went down to the luxurious Capitol cafeteria to hear the Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon speak on the current state of Obamacare implementation in Arkansas. What I learned is that we are dangerously close to becoming part of the Obamacare monstrosity — but there is hope that the beast can be stopped, and that should be every Arkansan’s goal.
The answer to stopping Obamacare sounds pretty simple, albeit politically tricky: 1. Don’t expand Medicaid & 2. Don’t create health care exchanges (See our previous reporting on exchanges). First, let’s take a look at Medicaid expansion, beginning with a few statistics from Cannon:
- 1 out of 3 doctors do not accept Medicaid
- 4 out of 5 dentists do not accept Medicaid
- 8 out of 10 people who will be put into Medicaid expansion already have private insurance
- $1 out of every $3 in Medicaid dollars does nothing to make patients happier or healthier
No doubt many of you have heard of “The Beebe Plan” for expanding Medicaid that is being championed by even some conservative legislators as a “free-market option.” (Here’s a recent example of the representation Republicans are making.) Cannon rejected this categorization, calling it “cronyism.” In our conversation after the meeting, he told me it’s not a free-market approach until there’s no government money being spent.
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I am going to contact every Arkansas lawmaker that I know and try to get this effort stopped. Dan Greenberg of the Arkansas Advance Institute blog and several other conservatives oppose this effort by my Republican friends. Hopefully they will wake up and see that they are trusting President Obama’s word and that reminds me of the time he told pro-life Democrats that Obamacare would not pay for abortions. Things change pretty fast with this administration and I would not trust them.
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