Columbus Dispatch: Ohio Taxpayers Will Pay Big for ObamaCare
One Provision Alone Will Cost Buckeye State Nearly $1.5 Billion in Taxes
Pelosi: “We Have To Pass The Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It”:
“You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Pelosi Remarks, 03/25/2010)
RED ALERT: Ohio State Agency Says ObamaCare Provision Will Cost Taxpayers $1.45 Billion:
“The sharp Medicaid expansion under the new federal health-care law will cost Ohio taxpayers $1.45 billion from 2014 through 2019, according to projections released to The Dispatch yesterday by the state. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services estimates that Medicaid - which currently insures nearly 2.1 million poor and disabled Ohioans - will grow by 554,000 people beginning in the 2014 fiscal year. Half of the new enrollees are already eligible for coverage but not enrolled and expected to sign up during a renewed marketing effort, state officials say. The cost estimates were the first by the state since President Barack Obama signed the sweeping overhaul into law in March. (Catherine Candisky, “Medicaid Expansion Will Sock Taxpayers,” Columbus Dispatch, 6/18/2010)