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Republican lawmakers hold the line against Obamacare at state level
latimes.com ^ | Feb 16, 2015 | Mark Z. Barabak and Noam N. Levey

Posted on 02/16/2015 4:40:38 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

As President Obama fights in Congress and the courts to preserve the nation's sweeping healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act faces still another threat to its viability: Republicans in statehouses, many bucking governors of their own party eager to accept its flow of federal dollars.

When a group of Republican governors filed suit to overturn Obama's signature achievement, Wyoming's Matt Mead was among them, arguing the legislation was a vast overreach that violated the Constitution and trampled the right of states to set their own policies.

But after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected that argument, Mead decided it would be foolhardy to pass up tens of millions of dollars the act provided to expand coverage for Wyoming's uninsured adults

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; abortion; california; coveredcalifornia; deathpanels; lofan; obamacare; zerocare

1 posted on 02/16/2015 4:40:38 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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And the LA Times is upset about it...


2 posted on 02/16/2015 4:49:42 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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I hope CA Republicans can do something....but the article refers to other states ...sorry for the misleading of the Headline....
3 posted on 02/16/2015 5:14:30 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Naturally the LA Times makes no mention that top Democrats in the House are asking for extensions for Obamacare since so many uninsured people are finding out the penalty for not having health insurance. This whole thing is a disaster and the Democrats are reaping what they sowed.


4 posted on 02/16/2015 5:21:48 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Evidently they corrected the headline at the link...you can ask the mods to do the same here.


5 posted on 02/16/2015 5:33:07 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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The paper Headline reads:

GOP thwarts Obamacare at State level.

Which I interpreted as the California State.

Can we get a change>

6 posted on 02/16/2015 6:47:19 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Can we get a change>

I called it in. Let's see what happens.

7 posted on 02/17/2015 7:26:52 AM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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