The Federal Government and many states, are taking over America’s health care system, mostly out of the view of ordinary citizens. How? Congress and state governments are aggressively expanding, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program by offering to the middle class two government programs originally intended only for the poor.
New York State, for example, has applied for federal permission to give mostly free health care insurance to families earning as much as $83,000 per year! Nine states already give away mostly free care to families of four earning up to $62,000 and another 33 states now give away coverage for families earning up to $41,000. In short, the government is going ahead with nationalizing heath insurance long after Americans decisively turned down universal government health care proposed by the Clinton Administration.
Our current health care system is based on insurance provided primarily through one’s employment, and both business and employees share in the cost of providing health coverage. All citizens who do not have private insurance are either covered by Medicaid or by walking into a hospital and getting charity care.
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