I am sure you’ve all heard that Kentucky was granted permission to require Medicaid recipients to get a job. I am even sure many of you think this is a fine idea. After all, why should an able-bodied person get to flounder at home and use our tax dollars to garner a benefit.
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Lately, data are indicating that the seemingly inexorable rise in our health care costs may be attenuating. Is this real? Or, just an artifact? Given that there are large variations in health costs across the US, what does this trend mean for our local, state, and federal taxes. And, given that these difference in regional costs will become exacerbated as more (Republican) states refuse to run their own health care exchanges, some of us are in for additional costs.
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