Bad news isn’t always a surprise. But knowing it’s coming doesn’t always help, either. And now that, as expected, South Carolina now faces a huge new bill due to Obama-Care, our state faces a terrible dilemma.
The president and his allies in Congress promised that their massive health care overhaul would extend coverage to roughly 30 million previously uninsured Americans. The bill’s critics, including S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford, warned that the states would have to cover large new tabs due to the bill’s vastly increased number of people eligible for Medicaid.
The critics were right. Tuesday’s Post and Courier reported that the ObamaCare Medicaid mandate is projected to cost our state “nearly $1 billion over the next decade, even with the federal government covering at least 90 percent of the cost.”
Three cheers for Hopey changey! (Brought to you by Democrats that had to pass it before they could know what was in it.)
I suppose the Fed will try to solve the mess by printing more money, further devaluing our currency. And again the price of commodities such as petroleum will rise. This, of course, will hurt those in the lower middle and middle classes the most. Couple that with the increase in taxes scheduled to take place Jan 1 2011 – not just on the “rich” but on the middle.
Y’all happy with Zero now?
Unless the man on the street actually sees and experiences for himself the painful cost of Obama care it will not be repealed. To do this I think States and local governments should immediately stop all funding for public education, road improvements, public safety, public aid, art programs and any other service funded by local and state dollars. They should then declare their intent to dedicate all such revenue to the financing of Obama’s mandate.
They lost me at “Obamacare.”
#4 That’s the trouble with Liberals…they don’t bother to read an item before they vote on that item. If they had read the bill (so that they might actually know what was in it before they made it the law), they just might have seen that it was going to further bankrupt the states. You prove the point well.
I agree with #3, since Federal Law trumps state and local laws (thanks Mr. Lincoln, for breaking the Constitution), the states have no choice but to fully fund Obamacare at the expense of all other state and municipal non-federal programs. I suspect that they will still be bankrupt. But hey, why not just do away with States anyway. They are no longer relevant since the Federal Government is taking over everything. Let’s just do away with the inefficient extra layers of governance at state and municipal levels, since they basically have to rubber stamp all Federal edicts.