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This headline should be seriously considered by all Americans. First, with the persistent decline of the US economy, an unprecedented number of unemployed Americans are becoming eligible for Medicaid and will therefore be affected by these new policies. Additionallly, as a direct result of legislation within the Obama healthcare law, more Americans again will come under the control of Medicaid for two specific reasons.

First, with the law's significant expansion of Medicad eligibility, 18-24 million Americans are likely to find themselves in this bankrupt program, some of whom may currently have private coverage. Secondly, due to the employer mandate, many businesses will find it less expensive to pay the "tax" for non-compliance and dump their existing medical insurance plan. This financial decision will leave workers on their own to either enter the Medicaid program or try to find coverage in the tax-payer funded state insurance "exchanges" if one even exists in their state.  

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States that have refused to implement the Obama health law have already blocked $80 billion of its new deficit spending. If more states follow suit, they can block the other $1.6 trillion and force Congress to repeal the law. 

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One of Capitol Hill's newspapers, The Hill, is reporting that at least 15 governors are leaning against implementing ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion. The reluctance comes on the heels of the Supreme Court decision that found unconstitutional the provisions of the law that punished states if they refused to expand Medicaid. 

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The Galen Institute's Grace-Marie Turner's latest column at National Review Online discussed the three scenarios for how the Supreme Court will decide the multi-state lawsuit challenging ObamaCare's individual mandate and the laws burdensome Medicaid requirements. Her article also contains a very disturbing fact. 

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