Runaway Medicaid Reaches Moral Cliff

The “moral case for reforming Medicaid” is a no brainer after an unsustainable progressive brainstorm amended The Affordable Medicaid Act to expand it into a “permanent entitlement for childless men in their prime.”

The WSJ’s editorial board argued as much when it recently noted “Six in 10 able-bodied adults on the healthcare program have no earned income.”  As the editors reminded, “the fast-growing entitlement … now spends more than $850 billion a year while delivering subpar healthcare for the poor. The left and the press are trying to intimidate the GOP from addressing the program’s failures [in its latest budget proposal] and President Trump is already having doubts. But, Republicans can win the Medicaid argument if they understand how the program has gone wrong and make their case in the moral terms it deserves.”

Never mind that the national deficit is now over $37 TRILLION and growing in leaps and bounds thanks in no small part to the runaway Medicaid program and other entitlements. The “other” reality is that the irresponsible policy/vote grab policy-making keeps metastasizing like a cancer. Consider that Obama Democrats separately expanded Medicaid in California beyond the borders of reason so that the state may have set itself up for bankruptcy by going even further than anyone in the Swamp could have imagined. How? By providing Medicaid benefits even to illegal aliens. Here's another “moral” argument the GOP can use in budget negotiations: “If you bankrupt the system if not the country, NO ONE WHO’S POOR WILL GET THE HEALTHCARE THEY NEED AND DESERVE.”

Davd Soul