Posted on 02/05/2013 1:35:36 PM PST by Jean S
Why did the Tea Party–backed governor of Ohio just say yes to a key part of President Obama's health care law?
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) is the latest governor to accept the hefty Medicaid expansion authorized by President Obama's health care overhaul. He's not the first Republican to do so — Brian Sandoval (Nev.), Susana Martinez (N.M.), Jack Dalrymple (N.D.), and Jan Brewer (Ariz.) have, too — but Kasich's opt-in is a bigger deal. As House Budget Committee chairman during the Newt Gingrich years, the "fiercely conservative" Kasich "built his political identity arguing for smaller government," says David Nather at Politico. And the expansion of Medicaid to every Ohio resident earning up to roughly 133 percent of the poverty level is inarguably a big expansion of government — and an embrace of a key mechanism of ObamaCare. That is not going over well with Kasich's conservative and Tea Party supporters, since he was one of their best hopes to stop ObamaCare at the state level.
Kasich has been twisting himself into a pretzel trying to argue that Medicaid expansion isn't really ObamaCare.... But the fact remains that broader Medicaid coverage is a central piece of Obama's health care law, and thanks to the Supreme Court ruling last summer, states don't have to go along with it. Anti-ObamaCare groups have lost the argument with a few other red-state governors, but Kasich isn't just any red-state governor. He's been known as the most aggressive spending hawk this side of Scott Walker and Mitch Daniels. [Politico]
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The GOP-e has ALWAYS been in favor of Obamacare; they just didn’t want to be responsible for it, in case there was negative fallout.
But I guarantee they want to administer it. The money and power from such a position is irresistible.
I agree and was just saying last night I’d have to go to a similar country to afford medical coverage (and Panama’s for ex-pats or tourists, is pretty good quality). But the idea that fleeing to another country is going to get you away from big, intrusive government — that’s ridiculous.
It won't work, as if he doesn't actually have a (D) by his name on the ballot, the Fraud and inner-city tribal parasites will multi-vote him out next election, and he has alienated any Conservative support he might have had.
Goodbye, and don't let the door hit you in the ass, John.....
I do not expect much from Panama. I just cannot watch this country deteriorate any longer. Our business is ag and there are many countries that appreciate what you have to offer. The only problem I’m having with these countries is the pace that things get accomplished. Going Mobile.
John is a politician after all.
Maybe so....but I can go to plenty of South American countries and get great quality care..for WAY cheaper than here.
When John and I were kids, we were in the same Sunday School class. When the teacher would call on him, John could never give an answer in 25 words of less. The other kids nicknamed him “Pope.” He had the makings of a politician even back then.
When John and I were kids, we were in the same Sunday School class. When the teacher would call on him, John could never give an answer in 25 words or less. The other kids nicknamed him “Pope.” He had the makings of a politician even back then.
I can certainly understand that. Best of luck there. My wife has a close friend in Panama. Funny thing is my wife has always been suspicious that the friend is involved in covert U.S. Intelligence somehow, although she outwardly has a boring federal bureaucrat job.
Yes, I have heard that many times including from the friend in the prior comment. And they also have real nurses still, not just technicians but real nurses that are concerned with your well being.
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