Arizona
Gov. Jan Brewer and a bipartisan majority
in the U.S. House are at the vanguard of legislative opposition to ObamaCare.
Democratic Rep. Mike McIntyre and North Carolina’s Republican representatives
were part of the bipartisan vote to repeal ObamaCare.
Gov. Brewer and the Arizona state legislature are asking for an exemption from
the law’s onerous Medicaid burden. Under ObamaCare, states cannot reduce
Medicaid eligibility. What that means for North Carolina is that if the state
is to reduce the $1 billion in new Medicaid spending since fiscal year 2007, it
must stop paying for many services and cut payments to doctors, which will mean
even less access to care for everyone on Medicaid. Instead of maintaining care
levels for fewer people, ObamaCare insists on less care for the same number of
people. Surely no health care advocate would argue this makes sense. But this
calls into question the central
unfounded tenet that health insurance coverage means access to health care.
When the North Carolina General Assembly begins its session Wednesday,
legislators can join the fight to protect the care of all North Carolinians, on
Medicaid or not, by pushing to repeal ObamaCare. The American
Legislative Exchange Council has provided a guide for them that explains
how ObamaCare hurts states and how they can resist.
