Just to give New Yorkers a “push” toward the socialized health care being offered by our new Lord and Savior, the Annointed One, the Messiah, Barack…along comes so-called “reporting” from Gannett that New York’s budget is about to crash and burn due to Medicaid. Well duh! I, among many others, have been sounding the alarm for a long time! The truth in this case (that Medicaid in New York is about to break us) is only trotted out by the left when it suits their agenda–that agenda being socialized medicine being forced down the throats of the entire U.S.

A recent article in the Press & Sun-Bulletin by Gannett reporter Brian Tumulty, titled “Reports predict N.Y. financial crisis from health care,” starts this way:

New York’s Medicaid program will experience a financial crisis if Congress doesn’t enact health care legislation, according to two studies released this week.

Ten years from now, state officials could face a 93 percent rise in the cost of providing Medicaid services to adults and related health services to children from low-income families, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute predict in one report. That report says the average New Yorker could be spending 55 percent more for health services in 10 years.

“It’s a very dire picture, a very bleak picture without health reform,” said Dr. John Lumpkin, director of the health care group at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, N.J. “There’s a lot of discussion in Washington about the various options. What’s not being discussed is that doing nothing is the worst possible option.”

Without our Savior’s health reform plan, all is lost. There is no hope. Woe is me. BUNKUM.

Nowhere in the article does it chronicle how New York has THE most generous Medicaid benefits in the entire country. Most states do not cover every hang nail under Medicaid–but New York does! No where does the article chronicle the cost per capita that New York pays, which in 2006 was $2,316 for every man, woman and child in our entire state (some $44 Billion)! Compare that to California which spent $939 per person and Texas which spent $771 per person on Medicaid in 2006–both of those states have larger populations than New York. Do you see how out of whack New York’s Medicaid program is?

And do you see the shameless shilling the mainstream media performs for the socialist Obama agenda in our country? The media intentionally misleads, leaves out facts and otherwise bends the truth. Shame on Gannett, and shame on the P&SB for running a yellow journalistic article.

Medicaid is bankrupting us–on that no one disagrees. The answer? Decrease Medicaid benefits and the services offered under the program, and do it now. We could freeze Medicaid benefits in New York at half the level we have now without denying basic services or killing anyone, and instantly solve the New York budget crisis with that single act. Who will be “man” enough to do it? Certainly no one in Albany. Don’t fall for the “health care bill will magically solve New York’s Medicaid problem” scare tactics being peddaled by the left.

And may I point out the obvious with regard to the health care plan being offered by His Magnificence? Medicaid IS socialized medicine–it is health care provided to people who don’t pay for it from people (taxpayers) who do. Medicaid is a small preview of what a nationalized system would look like. And Medicaid costs, according to the article mentioned above, are spiraling out of control with no end in sight. What, pray tell, is the difference between what will happen under nationalized/socialized health care and Medicaid? Answer: There is no difference. Conclusion: Either the tax burden will become so extreme in this country we’ll have to repeal certain rights, like free speech (because of concerns of an uprising by the citizens), or health care will be rationed. Perhaps both will happen if this horrible plan is enacted.

Medicaid itself is the best argument against the lunacy Congress is attempting to pass by using parliamentary tricks and deceit. Don’t stand for it. Burn up the lines to your Senators and Congresspeople to let them know WE DON’T WANT OBAMACARE.

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