State Cuts Medicaid Payments In Wake Of ObamaCare’s Unfunded Liabilities
It’s been more than a year since liberal U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) gave President Obama the crucial 60th vote to pass his massive health care overhaul, including its $570 billion in tax hikes, $500 billion in Medicare cuts, and onerous individual mandate.
But now, Montanans are being forced to deal with yet another piece of fallout from Tester’s costly, unpopular health care law. As the Missoulian reports, “hundreds of health care providers around the state, both big and small, are facing cuts in Medicaid payments from the state… Medicaid is the state-federal program that pays medical bills for the poor and the disabled. It covers more than 100,000 people statewide.”
The state’s cuts in Medicaid payments come on the heels of a report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that shows Tester and Obama’s costly, unpopular health care law will pass an estimated $60 billion in unpaid-for Medicaid liabilities to the states over the next ten years – costing taxpayers in the State of Montana an additional $175.2 million over just five years, according to a report by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
“Tester and Obama heaped more than $175 million in new Medicaid costs on the backs of Montana taxpayers, and now the state is cutting the Medicaid payments that more than 100,000 Montanans depend on,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond. “This is yet another reminder that when it mattered most, Senator Tester put his loyalty to President Obama over the best interests of Montanans.”
