LePage: Medicaid expansion would kill Maine
Source: Bangor Daily News
Gov. Paul LePage has turned his attention squarely at defeating the Medicaid expansion referendum on this November’s ballot, claiming again that broadening eligibility for the government-run program would drive the state into backbreaking debt.
LePage’s ardent opposition to Medicaid expansion is nothing new. He has vetoed bids to do so six times during his tenure, making Maine one of the minority of states that have not expanded the program under the Affordable Care Act. The health care law gives states the option to expand Medicaid, with the federal government initially funding at least 90 percent of the cost of expansion, but LePage says that’s a fallacy.
“It’s a boondoggle and it’s going to kill this state,” LePage said during a radio interview Tuesday morning on WVOM. “Within two years we’re going to be right back to where we were in 2010.”
When LePage took office in 2011, one of his first projects was paying off hundreds of millions of dollars of accrued Medicaid debt to Maine hospitals. Democratic Gov. John Baldacci, LePage’s predecessor, had been paying down the debt for years, but those efforts failed to keep up with the burgeoning state obligation to hospitals. LePage finished the job with a revenue bond supported by the state liquor contract.
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Fuck you LePew
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and the republicans that have kept you in power, your an economic racist.
You in essence are an idiot, when you laid your hands on sexual predator and endorsed him, it said and says everything about you, everything.
