[Vision2020] House committee votes to kill Medicaid expansion

[Ron Force]

They can't expand Medicaid, since it's part of Obamacare. The crazies won't let them:

  Otter in his State of the State address last month nixed any hopes that he would support an expansion proposal, and the Idaho Legislature, 81 percent Republican and facing potentially heated primaries in May, was not expected to go against that.  
    They were bruised last year when they backed a state-based insurance exchange, and don’t want to enter another fight this year so close to the election where they could be branded as supporting another provision of President Obama’s overhaul.
    “Nobody wants to be seen in the Republican primaries as having voted for ‘Obamacare,’ “ Rusche said.
 
Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA



On Thursday, February 6, 2014 3:07 PM, Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com> wrote:
 
If God hadn’t wanted people to be sick, he’d have created them disease 
free.  Right?  
> 
>sueh
> 
>From: deb 
>Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 5:15 PM
>To: Tom 
Hansen ; Moscow Vision 2020 
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] House committee votes to kill Medicaid 
expansion
> 
>Missing an oppotunity? Really? and the working poor 
continue to be shat upon by the powers that fuel the megaloads.....
>Debi R-S
>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: Tom Hansen 
>>To: Moscow Vision 2020 
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 6:31  PM
>>Subject: [Vision2020] House committee  votes to kill Medicaid expansion
>> 
>>Perhaps Rush Limbaugh echoed  Idaho's sentiment best when he said . . .
>> 
>>"If people cannot afford health  care, they don't deserve it."
>> 
>>Courtesy of KHQ at:
>> 
>>http://www.khq.com/story/24644715/house-committee-votes-to-kill-medicaid-expansion
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>>House  committee votes to kill Medicaid expansion
>>BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The House  Health and Welfare Committee rejected a proposal to increase health care  coverage for low-income Idahoans, putting the final nail in the coffin of  Medicaid expansion hopes.
>>Rep. John Rusche, D-Lewiston,  had promoted the bill as a way to help the state's poor, who are particularly  vulnerable without coverage, as well as save hospitals and businesses  millions.
>>He faced opposition from Gov.  C.L. "Butch" Otter, who has already spoken out against the expansion of  eligibility, as well as his Republican majority colleagues.
>>Lawmakers voted along party  lines Wednesday, dooming the bill before it could make it to a full committee  debate.
>>Detractors said it wasn't the  right time to implement eligibility for the state's working poor.
>>Rusche said Idaho is "missing an opportunity."
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>>Audio recording of session . .  .
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>>Introduction by Rep. Rusche
>>http://youtu.be/-zdrAzAG28o
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>>Discussion and vote by panel
>>http://youtu.be/HdBym2hS2wE
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>>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
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>>
>>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants  on)
>>http://www.MoscowCares.com
>>  
>>Tom Hansen
>>Moscow, Idaho
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>>"There's room at the top they are telling you still.
>>But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
>>If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>>
>>
>>- John Lennon
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