Leftards — Even Arithmetic Is Hard For Them

 

Remember all of those evil Repub states that didn’t expand their Medicaid?  They were so evil and cruel.  ……..  Or, maybe they understood something leftards didn’t. Maybe something like, if you expand Medicaid, then everyone will sign up for it, making the cost of maintaining the state program untenable.  And, that the more expansion of Medicaid the less you’d have in the pool to finance Zerocare. 

Well, guess what!

CBS News has confirmed that in Washington, of the more than 35,000 people newly enrolled, 87 percent signed up for Medicaid. In Kentucky, out of 26,000 new enrollments, 82 percent are in Medicaid. And in New York, of 37,000 enrollments, Medicaid accounts for 64 percent. And there are similar stories across the country in nearly half of the states that run their own exchanges.

And now, we also see this,

So far, just 226 people have enrolled for private health insurance. At the same time, 25,000 Coloradans will be newly eligible for Medicaid benefits in January.

And, there also this ….

In Maryland, 82,473 of the 84,866 “new” enrollees came from the Medicaid expansion. In Oregon, 56,000 have signed up for the Medicaid expansion, and zero have bought private insurance through the exchanges.

455+468+1332+226+2393=4874  That’s how many more people are paying into the state exchanges, out of a total of 264,000 in these 6 examples alone. 

When the law passed, 2020 sounded like it was so far away in the future, that none of the lefist states paid attention.  It’s only 6 years and a couple months away.  But, we’re not going to make it to 6 years before the feds realize they can’t pay for this expansion.  And, then, neither will the states. 

But, the news gets worse.  As has been stated, over and over and over again, the success of Zerocare is entirely dependent upon young healthy people signing up for Zerocare.  Younger people tend to be poorer than older.  With the expansion of Medicaid, the healthy young adults are signing up for the free stuff, and almost no one is signing up to actually pay into the insurance system.  

Noting that the US is already $17 trillion in debt, where’s the money going to come from?  Zerocare is poised to collapse the entire healthcare system of the US.