{"id":4173,"date":"2015-08-15T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2015-08-15T18:30:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T23:30:25","slug":"not-all-medicaid-expansion-plans-are-created-equal-know-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/15\/not-all-medicaid-expansion-plans-are-created-equal-know-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Not all Medicaid expansion plans are created equal. Know the facts."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1\"<\/a>When the legislature returns in January, expect a new round of debate over Medicaid expansion. Do not be fooled by a plan that would take those federal funds and privatize them.<\/p>\n

“They’re allowing states (Arkansas was the first) to take the billion-plus dollars and privatize it,” explains SC Progressive Network<\/a> Director Brett Bursey.<\/p>\n

“They put it into a cabinet agency – in South Carolina Nikki Haley appoints the head of the Health and Human Services – and they would then subsidize insurance for poor people by buying them an insurance policy with a private company like Blue Cross\/Blue Shield.<\/p>\n

It’s a really bad idea. It’s a bad idea financially. It’s a bad idea from a medical standpoint. It’s just actually obscene making that type of money off of our tax dollars by ripping off poor people, privatizing poverty.”<\/p>\n