obamacare overwhelming ILL medicare system.

[powderman]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/28/obamacare-overwhelming-illinois-bloated-medicaid-system/?intcmp=latestnews
 
 Obamacare overwhelming Illinois’ bloated Medicaid systemBy Ben YountPublished February 28, 2014watchdog.org           
 
 Under Obamacare, Medicaid expansion was supposed to add no more than 500,000 people to the rolls in Illinois over the next couple of years.
Supposed to. Medicaid managers now say they will see almost that many by year's end.
"We told you all along that we expected about 509,000 people to enroll in Medicaid post-ACA," Illinois Health Care and Family Services Director Julie Hamos told lawmakers Thursday. "We now see that 430,000 could enroll by the end of this calendar year."
 
Illinois has added 315,000 people to Medicaid since Jan. 1. Here's a breakdown:
* 36,000 people were enrolled when they applied for food stamps
* 93,000 people were added through a special County Care program in Cook County
* 104,000 people have been added through the state's Obamacare exchange
* 82,000 have been added through the federal Obamacare website, healthcare.org
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[spruce]

Yes, the healthcare situation is sad, to say the least.
 
The architects of the ACA knew full well the extent of problems it's passing would cause.  That's all part of the plan to make it SO bad the people will be begging for a single payer system!  That's was, and is, the left's real objective.

[mcwoodduck]

It is only 315,000 People.  In a city like Chicago, where there are MIllions of people, adding the 315 million that now are on the healthcare rolls that will have to PAY thier co-op, pay their deductable, and Pay for other services that are not covered under the plans.  These people were originally under Emergency care some of the most expensive care around.  That they never paid for increasing the costs for the rest of us.  If Chicago, Cook County, or even the State of Ill.  Could not handle the addition of 315K there is a problem if it is over whelming their systems.  Now if you told me that the ACA rules closed three hospitals and a few free clinics while adding 315 to the free clinic system, I could see the problems. 
The other problem is that in all this time only 315000 people are on the rolls when there are almost a million people in cook county that are unemployed and need to enroll acording to the law, so what a failure that almost 70% of the people that could get free or subsidized plans have not signed up.