When Less is More

Much to the shock and the consternation of the Democrats,

The Republicans have announced plans to reduce enrollment 

in Medicaid, the program which pays the medical expenses

incurred by low-income people. But to the contrary of the 

Dems' fears that the GOP is dismantling most of the program,

the Republicans are actually redirecting the money in the 

program from going to ineligible people whose incomes are 

higher than the threshold of eligibility to be in it to go instead 

to those people whose income is under the maximum income

barrier. They are also kicking illegal immigrants off the rolls

of Medicaid that got signed up in those states (largely blue)

and never should have been recipients in the program.

Furthermore, Obamacare expanded Medicaid to cover the 

disabled and the children that the latter was created for.

And Medicaid's status quo shows its enrollment rate is 

actually double the poverty rate (!) and able-bodied folk

are being covered while disabled people and children are

on waiting lists for lengthy periods of time. With these 

reductions, there will be more money to channel to 

both the disabled and the children, with more of them

enrolling and not have to be on interminably long waiting

lists.

In summation, making Medicaid solvent simply requires 

spending less money on it and covering fewer people,

whether the Democrats like it or not (and believe me,

they don't). But the taxpayers will love it!

MEM