Leavitt Won't Rule Out Medicaid Budget Cuts

[NVMojo]

don't worry about cutting corporate welfare ...Bush and his buttclones will balance their clown budgets on the backs of the needy....

Thursday, January 20, 2005; Page A23

President Bush's choice to take over the Department of Health and Human Services steadfastly refused yesterday to rule out budget cuts for Medicaid, the state-federal health program for the poor.

In two otherwise cordial confirmation hearings, Mike Leavitt, the current administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, argued that Medicaid is "inefficient" and could serve more people with better management and some ingenuity.

HHS nominee Mike Leavitt said that Medicaid is "inefficient."

"We can expand the number of people we serve with the available resources," he said.

Lawmakers of both parties warned against any approach that would limit federal spending on Medicaid, noting that a sluggish economy has pushed millions more Americans into the program in recent years.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22253-2005Jan19?language=printer

[SharonAnn]

1. Should we encourage him to try it? I think there would be "blowback"

[mike_c]

2. how would obtaining "blowback" on the backs of the poor...

...differ from funding corporate welfare on their backs?

[pinniped]

3. First this piece of shit is an environmental expert at the EPA,...

now this POS knows everything about Medicaid. I can't remember how many awful things this jerk has proposed and done to set back environmental rules and laws. This assclown probably set things back more than 20 years.

The POS fucked the EPA up and now has his evil eyes on jacking up the HHS. Hang on for another wild ride while the * assclowns jack you up.

[NVMojo]

4. yep, remember he is a repug from Utah ...slave to oil and gas companies

[Goldeneye]

5. The asshats like running a huge deficit because then

they can kill social programs...like medicaid, SS, HUD...