(cont.) be HUNDREDS of insurance companies to choose from.  Thus lowering my costs, thus maybe allowing more coverage that I can pay for our employees that need it.  Of course I will write it off on taxes, but that is none of your business.  It is mine.  If the Medicaid numbers are as you say, then the state has got some serious figuring out to do on how to reprioritize spending so that the people that are covered by the state benefit will not lose their benefit.  You see, I and our employees pay taxes into the system that supports Medicaid.  The state better figure out how they are going to cover those people THEY promised to cover or your numbers might even be higher; in our state that is.  Now that the subsidies may dry up, Congress could decide to reallocate those monies to those who actually need it, instead of to those who sign up.  I qualified for a partial subsidy, but I can afford to buy my own.  The folks in Texas and Oklahoma don't need to subsidize my medical insurance.