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Trump administration to dump Obama-era rule allowing unions to siphon Medicaid money
Fox News ^ | July 10, 2018 | Gregg Re

Posted on 07/10/2018 10:05:31 PM PDT by Innovative

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it planned to end what it suggested was an illegal Obama-era rule allowing unions to Federal law generally prohibits states from skimming money from Medicaid payments bound for independent in-home personal care workers. But in 2014, the Obama administration created an exception, saying that states could divert some of that Medicaid money to unions, on the theory that these workers effectively were public-sector employees.

Eleven left-leaning states have used that provision to raise more than $200 million a year for unions by taking it from health workers who often didn't even realize it, according to top GOP officials.

Those states include California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Illinois -- a blue state which has been at the center of recent Supreme Court rulings stripping power from organized labor.collect dues from state subsidies intended for home health workers -- including family caregivers.

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KEYWORDS: medicaid; obama; obamacare; unions
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To: Original Lurker

They might not be blue for long if the economy continues to do well and the dem coffers are in the red.


21 posted on 07/10/2018 11:55:12 PM PDT by proudpapa (This is not the tagline you are looking for.)
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To: Innovative

This is yet another example of a criminal, thieving, demo_rat government.

JoMa


22 posted on 07/11/2018 1:54:29 AM PDT by joma89
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To: Innovative

bmp


23 posted on 07/11/2018 2:07:13 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: qaz123

I’ve said since the very beginning of his Adminstration that a huge indicator of success would be if DC residential real estate values flatten out. And if they actually decrease with a steady increase in the rest of the country? An almost unimaginable level of success!


24 posted on 07/11/2018 2:53:58 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Innovative

0bungo the most sleaziest occupant of the Whitehouse ever in American history


25 posted on 07/11/2018 4:02:43 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: Innovative

Donald Trump is rapidly becoming one of my favorite Presidents.


26 posted on 07/11/2018 6:28:01 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: FreedomPoster

That’s it.


27 posted on 07/11/2018 6:49:24 AM PDT by qaz123
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