re: #29 BryanS

Right…their closing assumes nobody can figure out any other way to replace that 20%. I would assume, as was the case in Louisiana where they learned the hard way it was foolish to close them, that states will find a way to fund them. What about the idea I suggested for states to impose a tax on insurance companies operating in their boundaries to make up that gap? It’s not as if funneling money through the federal level is the only way to pay for things.

This may be true, but will they? A lot of what the Federal government does it does because the states can’t or won’t do it even if there is a real need. My concern about many of these cuts is that states, especially the poor and usually red states, won’t find ways to make up the difference. They either won’t have the money or be not ideologically inclined to raise it.