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[quote=Anonymous]Stick these FUN FACTS up your angus, sideways.

2. Medicaid's Obamacare expansion will bankrupt states. In his most recent book Plunder and Deceit: Big Government's Exploitation of Young People and the Future, Levin writes that Medicaid now includes "those making 138 percent of the poverty line–that is, an annual income of $16,105 for an individual and $32,913 for a family of four" in the 31 states and Washington, D.C. that chose to agree to the expansion. The problem is that Medicaid already swallows almost 26 percent of states' budgets, and while the federal government agreed to pay the entire cost of the expansion for the first three years, their share of the burden decreasingly falls until the states likely have to pay for the full burden of the Medicaid expansion.

4. Medicaid and Medicare are projected to be major drivers of the debt in coming years. According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, "federal health spending is the fastest growing part of the budget":

Spending on federal health care programs is projected to rise substantially over the next thirty years. Medicare spending is expected to increase from 3.2 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) this year to 5.7 percent by 2046, while Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and ACA subsides will grow from 2.3 percent of GDP to 3.1 percent. As a result, total federal health spending will increase by 3.4 percent of GDP over the next three decades.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/13303/7-things-you-need-know-about-medicaid-aaron-bandler#[/quote]

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