Following in Obama’s Footsteps: Governor Using Exec Order to Impose Obamacare Expansion on Alaska

Alaska is about to hop aboard the Obamacare expansion train even as it’s hurtling off the rails.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, an independent, has given 45 days’ notice to the Alaska Legislature that he will expand Medicaid under Obamacare with or without their support.

With Obamacare expansion enrollment far exceeding projections in other states, Alaska would be the 30th state to put working-age adults with no kids and no disabilities on Medicaid.

The program comes with a promise of new federal funding, but states will be on the hook for 5 percent of benefit costs by 2017 and 10 percent by 2020.

Obamacare expansion promotional materials from Walker’s administration emphasize the benefit of bringing new federal welfare dollars to the state. (Read more from “Alaska Governor Plans to Impose Obamacare Expansion on His State” HERE)

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