Medicaid Expansion - here's some ammo for the Republican grassroots Rebellion - Granite Grok

Medicaid Expansion – here’s some ammo for the Republican grassroots Rebellion

Over at the Republican Liberty Caucus of NH was this request for info:

Windham GOP is considering their Medicaid resolution on the night Chuck Morse is their guest speaker

Senator Chuck Morse, prime sponsor of the medicaid expansion bill, will be at a special Windham Republican Committee meeting this Tuesday, March 4th at 6pm. We’re supposed to debate the merits of medicaid expansion. Any hard-hitting talking points you can recommend?

So I offered a few questions that could be asked:

WHY are you doing this? Is it really to merely take it off the table politically to smooth the way for re-election (like Boenher & boys did in DC with the debt ceiling)?

Is getting re-elected worth advancing the Democrat agenda by getting Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion implemented in NH? Isn’t that rather selfish: career before Party?

WHY is the Federal money going to go “off-budget”? Does that mean that the STate of NH will have no oversight?

If the State of NH is going to have oversight, isn’t this going to necessarily going to expand “limited government”?

WHY are we going to force self-reliant people onto government mandated dependency?

There is talk that the Feds are already trying to wiggle out of the 3 years at 100% – Mr. Morse, would that change the bill?

You are saying that “waivers must be granted” – you don’t believe that to get the camel nose under the tent and simply grant them so as to take away a faux firewall?

Are you really expecting us to believe that that the Legislature REALLY is going to discontinue the program after 3 years? Really? Do you think we are THAT Stupid? Progressives do, but do you?

You have already seen Committee after Committee condemn this legislation – why are you so willing to further sully the Republican brand with the base and Republican leaning independents (who pretty much will give you an FU and walk away)?

What is the quid pro quo – there has to be SOME arrangement to be doing this, yes?

How’s is it that you, the leaders in the NH State Senate, feel so comfortable in breaking just about every Plank in the Party Platform?

C’mon, you can tell me – you really DID vote for Obama, right? You ARE a Progressive Republican, right?

Medicaid has already proven to LOWER medical outcomes, especially when compared to totally uninsured people?

Are you aware that a large and significant number of doctors are no longer accepting Medicaid patients – and that nationwide, we are now seeing the same actions due to lowered Obamacare reimbursement rates?

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