COVID-19 & Healthcare

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

You can file this one under stupid shit the Goldwater Institute says and that reporters unquestionly repeat as mere stenographers. You can cross-file it under stupid shit that Tea-Publicans believe but which has no basis in the reality based world (they believe in confidence fairies and unicorns, i.e., the entirely disproved and discredited faith based supply-side "trickle down" GOP economic theory).

The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) reports Medicaid expansion critics question viability of hospital tax:

Opponents of Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid
expansion plan are concerned the proposed hospital tax that would pay
for Arizona’s share of the new AHCCCS coverage may not last long,
leaving the state on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars a
year.

Christina Corieri, a health care policy analyst at the conservative
Goldwater Institute, said the National Commission on Fiscal
Responsibility and Reform, often referred to as the Simpson-Bowles
commission, has proposed eliminating states’ ability to use hospital
taxes to pay for their share of Medicaid costs. Even President Obama and
leading congressional Democrats have floated the idea of scaling back
provider taxes, she said, which are currently capped at 5.5 percent of a
hospital’s revenue.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Announcement from Congressman Grijalva: Community Forum on Health Care for Women and Children hosted by Congressman Grijalva You are Cordially InvitedCommunity Forum on Health Care for Women & ChildrenMay 29th from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Please join Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva, including national and community health center experts, to discuss health … Read more

By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings   Another week of steadily twiddling thumbs at the state capitol. The hangup still seems to be AHCCCS/Medicaid restoration. Many of the Rs in the legislature, led by Senate President Andy Biggs (R-Gilbert) have dug in their heels, blocking anything.  It's gotten so bad that the Arizona Republic … Read more

By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings   First, learn about the governor's proposal at a training session on Thursday – AHCCCS Training Session on The Governor’s Medicaid Coverage Plan PURPOSE: The future of Medicaid is at a critical time. Support for the Governor’s Plan is needed to ensure that over 60,000 people do not … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Wingnuttia is all atwitter over an Oregon Medicaid study that they claim demonstrates that Medicaid does not improve the health of people on Medicaid. So I assume their points are to say that "Medicaid doesn't work" so "you are on your own" and if you are seriously ill perhaps you "should die and decrease the surplus population."

This is what happens when GOPropagandists — who did not read this complex research study because, really, who cares? — are paid to push simpleton bumper sticker memes about the evils of "socialized ObamaCare."

So before you get buried under a mound of bullshit from wingnuttia in the battle over Governor Brewer's Medicaid restoration/expansion plan, here are some articles to help you sort out fact from GOPropaganda.