Millionaires Are Qualifying for Medicaid Under Obamacare

The Daily Signal
Feb. 10, 2016
Good morning from Washington, where President Obama's final budget landed with a thud. Incredulous Republican lawmakers are making fun of the package, which increases spending by 4.9 percent, Philip Wegmann reports. Want a quick rundown? Kelsey Harkness has a 30-second video. Wait, millionaires get Medicaid? Melissa Quinn has the story. Heritage Foundation veteran Kim Holmes explores two hot topics: the feminist kerfuffle and Beyoncé's flirtation with the Black Panthers. Plus: A blue state embraces right to work.
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Millionaires Are Qualifying for Medicaid Under Obamacare

Jesse Patton, an insurance broker living in Iowa, has had clients with net worths ranging from $2 million to $5 million, which often stem from farmland or assets from divorce settlements. And those clients, he said, are enrolled in Medicaid in expansion states like Iowa.

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How a Blue State Came to Love the Right to Work

The Obama administration's regulatory "war on coal" created casualties in the fossil fuel-dependent state and an opportunity Republicans seized in 2014.

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Identity Politics Is Causing a War Among Feminists

Old-school feminists are not happy with young women these days. Seemingly commenting on why some young women favor Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton, feminist icon Gloria Steinem explained it is because they were thinking, "Where are the boys?"

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Here's Why Republicans Are Mocking Obama's Final Budget Proposal

Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., quipped that "the only positive thing about this budget request is that it's the last one we will receive from President Obama."

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Why Beyoncé Shouldn't Have Honored Black Panthers in Super Bowl Show

The Black Panthers movement was known to have shootouts with the police—and even occasionally torture and murder snitches in its ranks. To make that a symbolic carrier of the Black Lives Matter movement was meant to convey that it is now "cool" to embrace violence, mayhem, and frankly even racial separatism in the cause of civil rights.

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