Where will the money come from?

Powerline asks the questions. One of the tricks Dems used to score their health care bill is to pass responsibility for funding health care along to the states. There are some vexing questions about where resources will be found:

Where will the money for the expansion come from? Not from the federal government. If the feds were to foot the bill, this would explode the pretense that the legislation is "revenue neutral." To keep up that pretense, the bill would leave the states to pay for the expansion after the first three years. Gov. Barbour estimates the size of that bill at $25 billion. Call it the mother of all unfunded mandates.

The problem, of course, is that the states cannot afford to pay for the Medicaid expansion. Indeed, many states are already struggling with the cost of Medicaid as it is currently constituted. In Tennessee, for example, Democratic governor Phil Bredesen has capped the state's program, barring new entrants. Yet the Dems would require a massive expansion.