{"id":37906,"date":"2013-10-09T12:16:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T16:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37906"},"modified":"2013-10-09T12:17:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T16:17:05","slug":"new-bennies-under-the-aca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37906","title":{"rendered":"New &#8220;Bennies&#8221; Under the ACA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it seems we\u2019re still learning <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">how bad taxpayers got shafted<\/span> new things about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) nearly 2 1\/2 years after It passed.\u00a0 I guess we really did have to \u201cpass it to see what\u2019s in it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s yet another bit of \u201cgood news\u201d for Federal taxpayers contained therein.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the ACA makes able-bodied males with incomes under the poverty level eligible for Federal healthcare assistance.\u00a0 Specifically, it makes them eligible for Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>Under the ACA, it also seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/10\/09\/obamacare-to-shift-costs-prisoner-health-coverage-from-states-to-feds\/\">that\u2019s true even if they\u2019re incarcerated in a local or county jail, or in a state prison<\/a>.\u00a0 So states participating in Medicaid just got a major \u201cfreebie\u201d &#8211; and the US taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the US taxpayer will be picking up a chunk of the costs for prisoner healthcare in state\/county\/local jails.\u00a0 Previously that was a state\/local responsibility previously \u2013 which it should be.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bizarro_World\">Bizzaro World<\/a>, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it seems we\u2019re still learning how bad taxpayers got shafted new things about the Affordable &hellip; <a title=\"New &#8220;Bennies&#8221; Under the ACA\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37906\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New &#8220;Bennies&#8221; Under the ACA<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-health-care-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}