Medicaid is officially expanding in the commonwealth

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Well apparently Kentucky is officially the 21st state in the nation to be treated to the wonders of Medicaid expansion - thanks to Gov. Steve Beshear, Obama's No. 1 lap dog.

Is anyone surprised? Beshear has been hinting that he'll accept the federal dollars for Medicaid expansion - and the chains that come with them - for nearly a year now. One has to wonder if Beshear even considered a recent study from the New England Journal of Medicine which showed Medicaid expansion in Oregon resulted in ZERO significant health benefits compared to those uninsured. Whether we're talking blood pressure, levels of blood sugar, or cholesterol levels, those who were randomly selected to join Medicaid showed no difference in levels of health compared to those who were not selected.

But why would Beshear be concerned with such trifling statistics when he already made up his mind to jump on the Obamacare bandwagon a year ago?

As Jim Waters, President of the Bluegrass Institute, put it in his recent interview with WHAS in Louisville, "Medicaid expansion will only make a broken program bigger, not better."