Do you want to know a secret?
Despite what John Boehner and the Republicans are saying, health care reform is showing signs of success. According to the LA Times the tax credit for companies and the added employee security makes the Obama health care law attractive to businesses, employees, and even insurance companies.
LATimes:
....And Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, the largest insurer in the Kansas City, Mo., area, is reporting a 58% jump in the number of small businesses buying insurance since April, the first full month after the legislation was signed into law.....
....After learning about the tax credit from a local activist, studio owner Jamal Lee got a health plan for his four employees for the first time. He said it's already making a difference.
"You get more done when people are happy," said Lee, who opened the studio five years ago. "And it feels good to look at my employees and know that I'm helping to provide something that they really need."
Boehner and his cronies can make up their own fiction but they cannot dispute the fact that health care reform IS WORKING.
>>> More on Medicaid and Kasich's planned cuts from the Dispatch:
...In a letter yesterday to the president and congressional leaders, the GOP leaders urged them to abolish a stipulation in the health-care law that cuts federal aid to states that drop people from Medicaid, the state-federal health-care program for the poor.
"The effect of the federal requirements is unconscionable," Kasich and the others wrote. The rules "force governors to cut other critical programs, such as education, in order to fund a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to Medicaid."
...The federal government provides matching funds covering about 60 percent of Medicaid costs, and states pick up the rest. So, for every dollar Ohio cuts in Medicaid spending, it will lose an additional $2 in federal aid....
Can you even imagine how devastating that would be to have funds cut for the poor and the elderly? It is obvious that Kasich has no concerns for these people.
I'm still shocked at the rumor that Kasich plans to cut Hospice Services for those on Medicaid (see my previous post).