The Federal Government Has A Right AND Obligation To Drive States Into Bankruptcy! HUH?

While ObamaCare's individual mandate is the aspect most under scrutiny these days, there's another that's arguably worse and at least as unconsitutional. It will be playing out in the Supreme Court too so watch for it.

Here's an article describing the problem:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/279105/dems-vs-dems-medicaid-avik-roy

ObamaCare forces states which weren't really able to afford Medicaid previously to spend much, much more on it. That was one of the key features of ObamaCare ... extending nearly free health care to millions more who couldn't afford even minimum coverage from insurance companies. Sounds good in principle, right? 'Caring', compassionate and all that. In the abstract (ie, assuming state and federal government could find the money to pay for it), it IS the compassionate thing to do. But at the cost of bankrupting states? You cannot be serious!

So, the supreme court will soon hear this case (ref the article link above) and decide what's to be done about Medicaid in California. Either they do nothing which forces California into bankruptcy or they rule that the federal government has no constitutional right to force states to pay for something they cannot afford. This case is at least as interesting (consitutionally and otherwise) as the individual mandate case that's getting the most notoriety.

Note that ObamaCare requires all taxpayers to kick in to support this increase in Medicaid availability at the federal level too. Liberals paid for that by stealing some $500 Billion from the Medicare program, making that less affordable. That forces those currently on Medicare to pay more for that so that others can have nearly free health care. Redistribution y'know ... a good thing regardless the harm it does macro-economically. Redistribution is not to be questioned if you know what's good for you as if it's some kind of heresy to do so. The costs of Medicaid are helping to bankrupt us at the federal level too but the states are at a significant disadvantage ... they cannot print money as can the federal government. Nor can they steal money from a different large social program to pay for it as the federal government has stolen from Medicare.

By the way, the results are what we conservatives said they'd be. My Medicare costs have increased roughly 30% the past two years and my doctors tell me that medicare is paying them 30% less. Why is that? Because the money taken from the Medicare trust fund must be made up somehow. It won't be long until we cannot afford Medicare and doctors cannot afford to treat Medicare patients. The only solution? Full-government control over health care, the ultimate goal of progressives anyway. That's what they want. It'll just take longer than they'd prefer. They'll bankrupt both Medicare and Medicaid so that federal 'action' (a kind of state of emergency in health care) will be required.

The nanny state that's coming will be a societal train wreck for our republic. Kiss your freedom goodbye.