If you go by the standard conservative talking-points, Medicaid must be the worst insurance in America. The Manhattan Institute’s Avik Roy even wrote maybe 2,000 columns and a little e-book promoting this theme.
Most recently, in last week’s Republican debate, Carly Fiorina earned her second Politifact “Pants on Fire” with her statement that “Obamacare isn’t helping anyone.” Presumably to explain away the greatest decline in the uninsured since the 1960s, Fiorina argued, “We’re [just] throwing more, and more people into Medicaid.”
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