While the main topic of conversation today was the Supreme Court decision about health care, they also upheld the Law’s Medicaid expansion. The ruling was that the law can withhold some but not all Medicaid funds if the state does not agree to the expansion.
Former Medicaid Boss Dr. Donald Berwick joined the team to discuss, in his opinion, what this means for Medicaid. Check out what he had to say:
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Through online comments and republican commentary, we are led to believe that the important issue is JOBS. Most Americans are not that narrow-minded. As both presidential candiadates have mentioned in their own way, this election is about a paradigm for the future. Thus, the social, cultural, medical discussions are essential to our vision of tomorrow. Even in the context of JOBS, the economy is about the education and skill-levels of the population, it is about well-ness of families, it is about the capacity of families to meet their needs, it is about the contributions economically of the retired and disabled who are able to contribute to the financial success of their communities, it is about the ability of families to make family-planning decisions. Customers create jobs. It is a bit insulting to be told that the only thing Americans are able to focus on is JOBS. We are a bit smarter and more complex than that.