The Patriot Post® · Medicaid Emergency

A new study of 10,000 low-income Oregon residents showed that, after they had obtained Medicaid coverage, they visited hospital emergency rooms 40% more often than did those with no insurance. The Oregon study should put to rest the Obama administration’s argument that putting uninsured Americans on Medicaid would reduce ER visits. Add this to the report last year that Medicaid users are not healthier and often less healthy than others, and you have a vast program that doesn’t really help people while costing far more than it should. In other words, a government program. Nearly four million Americans have applied for Medicaid since ObamaCare expanded it in October, and more than 72 million Americans (20% of the population) were covered by it for at least one month in 2012. Republican governors who rejected ObamaCare’s expansion are looking smarter all the time.