Inmates getting coverage under ObamaCare, as states shift cost to feds

[WNYresident]

Inmates getting coverage under ObamaCare, as states shift cost to feds

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration often touts that people with pre-existing conditions and countless others can now get covered under ObamaCare. But there's another group that's starting to benefit from the law -- prison inmates.

Cash-strapped state and local prisons increasingly are using the Affordable Care Act to pay for their inmates' medical costs, taking advantage of a little-known provision that lets them shift some of those expenses to the federal government.

Ohio, Illinois and Iowa are among the states trying to offload the rising costs of health care – which include mental health programs – by enrolling inmates into a new expanded Medicaid program when they get sick.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...al-government/

[FMD]

meanwhile me and my friends must fall under the hardship exemption.

[Jeff]

meanwhile me and my friends must fall under the hardship exemption.

Hardship? You have been gloating about not paying for months.

[FMD]

yep! thats right