GOP lawmakers urge states (to drop out) on Medicaid

[babylonsister]

So they want the states to reject $ that would help poor people get health care. Got it.

GOP lawmakers urge states on Medicaid

By MANU RAJU | 6/29/12 5:08 PM EDT Updated: 6/29/12 7:41 PM EDT


Republican lawmakers are urging their home-state governors to drop out of the Medicaid expansion that was part of Barack Obama’s health care law now that the Supreme Court has given them a way out.

In interviews on Friday, GOP House and Senate lawmakers said their states should seriously consider rejecting the law’s provision for wider Medicaid coverage, which would gut the law’s expanded insurance coverage if many states decide to opt out.

“No, I don’t,” said Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) when asked whether Republican Gov. Nathan Deal should keep his state under the new Medicaid program.

“It’s a big increase in cost that the state government will have to incur and Medicaid is already unaffordable in Pennsylvania, as it is for most states,” said Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). “I think they’ll have to weigh the option very seriously of not going for that expansion. “

“I think they should” drop out, said GOP Rep. Tom Rooney, referring to his home-state of Florida. “The more {states}, the better. … Anything that a state can do to try to water it down, the better.”

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/78041.html

[SDjack]

1. The Republicans are sending General Sherman on another arson mission. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

15. General Sherman would never stoop this kind of shit.

He fought for America, and against a bunch of treasonous bastards. I don't see him switching sides were he alive today.

[Turbineguy]

2. They can spend the money they save

on cemeteries.

[liberal N proud]

3. Republicans hate middle class and poor people.

[kestrel91316]

4. They want poor people dead. They will also accept them leaving the state.

[Thinkingabout]

5. I guess this will lead the same path in Texas as the stimulus, Rick Perry first said no

Then took the money and balanced his budget, got up in the debates and other photo ops and said he had balanced the budget. What a fraud. Pimpy Jindal in Louisiana is trying to attract Romney by crying the same song. He does not have a way in Louisiana to provide the medicaid without the federal help either. Dumb and Dumber.

[noel711]

6. It's all about the freedom...

Freedom to be a jerk,
to deny compassion to others..
the freedom to spend earmarked $$$
and then bitch about the deficit.

doncha love freedom?

[ancianita]

7. This is the state-level stupid, stupid, politics of spite and Americans are sick of it.

It's strikes a blow AGAINST Romney's recent argument that Obama isn't giving the middle class a "fair shot." Republicans wouldn't know a fair shot if it shot them in the ass. They show that they know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. We need to keep their two-faced bullshit front and center in the coming months. This is divide-and-conquer rhetoric -- Romney claims one thing in the right wing media while GOP governors threaten to do another.

[Historic NY]

8. They want to drop out from a program that gives them the extra money...

"The states can opt out of the Medicaid expansion program, since the court said the federal government can't penalize them by withholding all Medicaid funding. Instead, these states wouldn't get the additional Medicaid money to cover newly eligible enrollees.

And that could mean trouble for many poor adults who are not eligible for Medicaid under the current system but would have qualified under the expansion."

[Dahl House]

9. So Bobby Jindal....

So Bobby Jindal, your going to ignore the SCOTUS? Wonderful! Now explain again where you hid your balls when BP was defiling your state.

[Tx4obama]

10. The new expansion part: Feds pay 90% and states only 10% (read that somewhere) n/t

[cbayer]

11. What a profoundly stupid idea.

Does he think that poor people, children and pregnant women will just stop needing care?

If they can't access out patient services, they will have no options other than to go to ER's. And they'll go when they are sicker.

It will impact everyone. Good luck getting re-elected with that.

[GoCubsGo]

14. They don't give a shit about poor people.

That's why it's so easy for them to tell their governors to opt out. The same goes for their latest talking point: "The system will be overwhelmed." As if the uninsured aren't going sick if they stay uninsured. These fuckers are as stupid as they are nasty.

[Wounded Bear]

12. Can you say: Sedition? nt

[jn2375]

13. these GOP Governors are the real "Death Panels"