Report: 100 million U.S residents will soon be on Medicaid

[Hoodat]

Report: 100 million U.S residents will soon be on Medicaid

“The pandemic-era policy keeping more than 21 million ineligible enrollees on Medicaid is costing taxpayers more than $16 billion per month."

Jon Styf  |  Updated: January 2, 2023 - 11:16pm

The United States will have 100 million residents on Medicaid in the next 72 days, according to the Foundation for Government Accountability, meaning that nearly one-third of all Americans will be on the program for health care.

Over the past three years, states have been prevented from removing recipients from the program through a federal COVID-19 emergency. Now, the date when states can begin to re-registering recipients when that emergency ends on April 1.

Federal matching funds for the additional recipients will discontinue on that date, Tennessee’s program Director Stephen Smith said at a recent program budget hearing. He said that his department has to have surplus funds on hand to cover recipients as the department begins what will be called a redetermination of benefits that is projected to cut enrollment from its peak of 1.7 million recipients in Tennessee back to the 1.4 million mark before the COVID-19 pandemic.

“For years, FGA has been warning about the rising number of people on government welfare programs. Now, we’re nearing a grim milestone—nearly one-third of the country will be on Medicaid,”  .  .

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/report-soon-100-million-us-residents-will-be-medicaid


This recent expansion began in 2010.  It continues year after year with Republican votes.  For twelve years now, the GOP has flat out refused to overturn Obamacare.  And every State that signed up for 'free' (temporary) Federal money to increase Medicaid rolls is now feeling the hurt.

[GtHawk]

Is that counting all the illegal aliens too?

[roamer_1]

This is the primary prop keeping health and medicine ridiculously high. And right behind it is the prop of private insurance.

[MajorClay]

Baby boom generation?

[Hoodat]

Baby boom generation?

Medicaid, not Medicare.

[MajorClay]

Oh, thanks, read it wrong

[Smokin Joe]

Oh, thanks, read it wrong

Right. These are the people the rest of us have been paying for while we struggle to pay for our own medical, dental, vision, hearing...

[LMAO]

And Medicaid was in trouble before 100 million enrolled

This is by design. Get people dependent on government and they’ll resist spending cuts

[Hoodat]

And Medicaid was in trouble before 100 million enrolled

This is by design. Get people dependent on government and they’ll resist spending cuts

Yep.  And Republicans are OK with this.