And so Barry’s "fundamental transformation" of America continues, and pretty much unabated since it seems that there is now in this a country a near majority of ‘citizens’ quite content to simply live off the rest of us. And what’s now a pretty sad commentary on just what our nation has become, is the fact that the number of Americans who were enrolled in Medicaid at any time during fiscal 2013 exceeded the entire population of the United Kingdom. And that little tidbit of news comes to us by way of some new data recently published by the federal government’s Medicaid and CHIP Payment Access Commission (MACPAC).
So in what is an attempt to put that bizarre fact into its proper perspective, were Medicaid an actual nation, instead of a massive U.S. entitlement program, it would be the 20th most populous country on earth. "The estimated number of individuals ever covered by Medicaid remained steady at 72.7 million in FY 2013, compared to 72.2 million in FY 2012," said MACPAC's statistical report, released on April 1. And according to the Central Intelligence Agency, the United Kingdom has a total population of 63,742,977. Thus, Americans who were enrolled in Medicaid at some point last year outnumbered all of the people who are now living in the U.K..
That total of 72.7 million, out of a total of 317 million, Americans on Medicaid in fiscal 2013 also exceeded the populations of Thailand (67,741,401), France (66,259,012) and Italy (61,680,122), according to the population numbers published in the CIA's World Factbook. The latest report from MACPAC revised downward by 0.4 million (from 72.6 million) the number of people who had been enrolled in Medicaid in fiscal 2012. "The number of individuals ever covered by Medicaid grew by less than 2 percent, from an estimated 71.7 million in FY 2011 to 72.6 million in FY 2012," said a MACPAC report released a year ago.
Medicaid, a federal-state partnership, is a means-tested ‘entitlement’ program that provides healthcare to ‘low income’ individuals. Obamacare, also known, and very laughably so, as the Affordable Care Act, which ‘requires’ all individuals to have health insurance, also expanded Medicaid, requiring states to extend Medicaid coverage to people earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. The Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not compel states do this, making the expansion optional for state governments. The only ‘sensible’ part of an idiotic ruling that at least did provide what was, of sorts, an escape clause.
And at the present time there are three states who are now considering expansion: Missouri, Pennsylvania And Utah. Also we have twenty-one states, most of which are a beautiful shade of red, who have chosen not to expand their Medicaid programs: Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The remaining states, all 26 of them plus the District of Columbia did decide to take part in Obamacare and therefore chose to expand their Medicaid programs.
Now imagine for a moment what this country would look like were it not for the rapidly growing parasite population that we now have in this country. An entire class that consists of an odd assortment of entitlement driven moochers, created by the Democrats but of whom it can be said have been nurtured by both political parties, although by one to a lesser degree than the other. Not that the level of involvement really matters all that much, I suppose. And at this point in the game I’m not even sure what could be done that wouldn’t cause riots in the streets. And that’s where we, the ones forced to covers the costs, could learn something.
I mean why is it exactly that we, the ones seeing more and more of the money that we ‘work’ for and ‘given’ to others, not taking to the streets and while there’s still more of us than there are of them? Why aren’t we flooding the streets of Washington or, better still, the halls of Congress, demanding our country back? Why is it that every night I’m not seeing a growing number of residents from any number of states demanding an end to the brand of socialism that has so ravaged their respective states. From the People’s Republic of California to Socialist Republic of Massachusetts and everywhere in between, those who have a desire to rescue their state must make their voices heard.
But apparently we have yet to reach that point where something like that would happen, so sadly our streets remain quiet, except for that occasional mob made up of those who somehow feel they’re being persecuted because their ‘talents’ earn for them no more than the minimum wage. And something else that can be said to add additional credence to our apparent possessing of some sort of a death wish as a nation, is that, apparently, a majority of us actually want to see Hitlery Clinton as our next president. What better proof of our national insanity is there than that? I mean what sort of rational thinking human being would think that that is in any way a good idea?
No comments:
Post a Comment