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Has Scott Walker Figured Out How to Navigate ObamaCare?

Feb. 14, 2013 8:45pm Christopher Santarelli

Detractors can find many things to hate about ObamaCare–towards the top of that list is the law’s unnecessary and/or unwarranted complexity. Last year the federal government released a guide book for the law clocking in at 70,000 pages. To avoid what many view as a burden placed on states through the law, 13 Republican governors have rejected ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion, with Republican Scott Walker of Wisconsin becoming the latest to do so this week. Walker’s decision has raised eyebrows as it appears he has found a plan to avoid the Medicaid expansion while covering many uninsured and cutting some of his state’s Medicaid program, POLITICO reports:

The Republican announced that he is rejecting Medicaid expansion and the billions of federal dollars that would come with it. In fact, he’s proposing a net cut in the state Medicaid program.

Walker would take thousands of people currently on Wisconsin’s relatively generous Medicaid program — people who are above the federal poverty level — and move them into the Obamacare exchange instead, where they can get federally subsidized private insurance. Walker has already said he won’t run the exchange, requiring the federal government to take control instead.

Once that group is out of Medicaid, he’d permit more of the state’s poorest residents to come in. But overall, Medicaid enrollment would drop by about 5,400, according to estimates provided by Walker’s office.

Walker packaged his plan as a responsible effort to cut into the ranks of the state’s uninsured while weaning low-income residents off a reliance on entitlement programs.

On ‘Real News‘ Thursday the panel discussed Walker’s plan and if it can be used as a guide for governors interested in navigating ObamaCare in the most cost effective way.

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woodyee
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:20am
Me likey!

(Oh, snap! Erase, erase, erase!)

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shorelineliz
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:22am
Dam Brilliant! He gets thousands off STATE Medicaid and ONTO Federal Obamacare making the FEDS pay and freeing up HIS STATE money. Give this guy a dam medal! Now all you OTHER Governors do the same.

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bigdaddyt46
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:53am
Walker is a smart cookie that’s for sure. just about every day there’s something from him that makes me proud i voted for him twice (3 times when his next election comes). he took a state destroyed my a far left demonicrat, and in short turned it back to a prosperous state with a bright future.

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:12am
The problem is that the government is not subsidizing anything? You are going to pay, there is nothing free here, and the deductibles are going to be astronomical because the average person makes $17,000 per year, and does not live inside the Washington Beltway?

Not to mention the regulations that are going to be never ending, and probably loaded on your precious little smart phones, where government employees are literally going to be rewarding and punishing you?

This is not rocket science, you are staring at it in the face?

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Desertdog982003
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 12:23am
Walker 2016?

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- DougHuffman
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 8:14am
  Nope, not as a GOP repugnican. Read Peter & Hull’s ‘The peter Principle’ and hope that Scott Walker never rises to his level of incompetence – as the Obooba Lord of Flies Lies has done looong ago about the time he left Africa.
  
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