Christie's 2016 New Jersey budget to benefit from ObamaCare
Christie's 2016 New Jersey budget to benefit from ObamaCare
(Bloomberg) -- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a second-term Republican who has called President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul a “failed federal program,” is benefiting from it in his fiscal 2016 budget.
The state will spend $150 million less on charity care for uninsured patients next year, Christie said Tuesday at a town-hall meeting in Somerville. The expansion in Medicaid eligibility under Obamacare has led to a 43 percent drop in the number of uncompensated hospital cases, he said.
“Expanding Medicaid was the right decision for New Jersey,” he said during the 90-minute session in an elementary school gym. “It’s helping to save us money. Our state taxpayers are seeing more federal dollars and we’ve also added more people covered so they don’t go for their primary care in a hospital emergency room.”
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