More Republican Governor rats desert their party's sinking ship to join Obamacare

fiddlerdave · Sep 14, 2013

As the Obamacare deadline approaches, the grandstanding stops and Republican governors bow to the inevitability of America's advancement.

Allow medical care for the working poor!? How AWFUL!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/12/pennsylvania-medicaid-expansion_n_3915978.html

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett may be the 10th Republican governor to back a Medicaid expansion in his state under President Barack Obama's health care reform law, according to reports.

Corbett declared in February that Pennsylvania wouldn't open Medicaid to more poor people under the law, but he will reverse that position and support a version of the expansion, Lancaster Online reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources. Corbett will make a Medicaid announcement soon, two Corbett aides confirmed to PoliticsPA.

A Medicaid expansion would provide health coverage to 682,000 people in Pennsylvania, according to the Lancaster Online report. Not counting Pennsylvania, 24 states and the District of Columbia plan to broaden Medicaid under Obamacare starting next year.

By supporting the Medicaid expansion, Corbett would join fellow Republican governors, including neighbors Chris Christie in New Jersey and John Kasich in Ohio, in bucking GOP resistance to the health care reform law. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) also initially opposed the Medicaid expansion before changing course.

Although a handful of Republican governors have backed the Medicaid expansion, most Republicans refuse to enlarge the program in their states. Kasich and Gov. Rick Scott of Florida haven't been able to move Medicaid expansion bills through their Republican-majority legislatures, as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder have.

The Pennsylvania Senate approved legislation in June that would have expanded Medicaid but the state House stripped it from the bill the following month.

Corbett has been eyeing a form of Medicaid expansion that would restructure the program in his state. He favors reforms such as enrolling Medicaid beneficiaries into private health insurance plans, similar to legislation enacted in Arkansas, Iowa and Michigan this year, and wants to add requirements such as new co-payments for medical treatments, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Click to expand...

Oldyoungin · Sep 14, 2013

I agree 100 % . Republicans are a lost party currently, looking for their identity. They need their "messiah" much like obama became the democrats.

Yeah I said it.

Log in or Sign up

More Republican Governor rats desert their party's sinking ship to join Obamacare

fiddlerdave Well-Known Member Past Donor

Oldyoungin Well-Known Member

Share This Page

Log in or Sign up

More Republican Governor rats desert their party's sinking ship to join Obamacare

fiddlerdave Well-Known Member Past Donor

Oldyoungin Well-Known Member

Share This Page

Useful Searches