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Make Democrats Dance For Medicaid Expansion

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House Republicans are also likely to try to modify the state’s Medicaid expansion plan, through legislation or the budget process. The plan ends in 2016 if lawmakers don’t reauthorize it. Hassan has said she’ll veto any proposal to end the law, and Democratic House Minority Leader Steve Shurtleff said making the expansion permanent will be his caucus’s top priority.

“I can’t see someone taking away health care from people who really need it,” he said.

Flanagan said after a Wednesday Republican caucus that his House colleagues have to be realistic when dealing with Medicaid expansion, partly because senators from the GOP helped write the bill.

“I tried to temper their enthusiasm because we’ve got to get it across the wall,” Flanagan said, referring to the upper chamber.

Surtleff is kidding right?  He’s made a career out of taking away “things” people have had or need like the right to defend themselves.  And aren’t most of the people being moved to expanded Medicaid in NH folks who were dumped there by companies who were already insuring them?  I believe the answer to that is yes.  Yes, Shurtleff and company created a taxpayer funded dumping ground that allowed ‘Big Business’ to shift privately insured folks from their balance sheet on to the backs of taxpayers.

Feel free to ask Democrats why they think it is ‘fair’ to force taxpayers to shoulder the burden (forever) of recipients who were Shurtleffed off private plans?

That’s a winning political message for the “struggling Middle Class” taxpayer if ever I heard one.

And is that RINO Flanagan sowing the seeds of low expectation?  Of failure?  Has Democrat elected Speaker Jasper and his anti-hero RINOFRINDS already decided to give up?

Would that surprise anyone?

Here, let me help you out.  Any proposal to extend the expansion (if you have to write one and for no more than two years -ever) just needs to be filled with a provision that makes us a Right to Work state, or includes a stricter clarification of Domicile for voting purposes, or has expanded penalties for bureaucrats who ignore the Right to Know law, or includes a prohibition on the state taking out dues for union members, or how about one with a repeal of the license requirement for concealed carry.  And no plan of any kind should expand the plan more than another two years and burden future legislatures with the cost when the Feds fail to fund as promised–because we know they will.

The Democrats will balk and Hassan will threaten veto.  Republicans can then go to the people and ask why the Democrats would rather have the state collect dues for partisan union reps who can just as easily pay it themsleves than fund that “health coverage” they insist you can’t do without?  Why would Democrats rather risk out of state residents stealing your votes than to fund Medicaid for a few more years?

Why would  they risk making you pay when there is no guarantee the government will hold up their end of the bargain?  Why do they believe that a nation with $18 trillion in debt and growing can keep its promise to pay for Medicaid expansion in New Hampshire?

Why do Democrats want to force people who had coverage into coverage Doctors wont take?

Wait -How about a provision that taxes unions like every other New Hampshire business (forever) if the Feds renege even a dime?

Have some fun with this, dammit.

I think Republicans should send Hassan a pile of “compromises” just like those.  You’ve got the votes to get them there.   Make Democrats vote against them and make Governor Hassan explain her vetoes.  Be relentless and public about the left’s strange allegiances and partisan hypocrisy. And all the while, as the sunset deadline approaches, you can still blame Democrats for refusing to work with you on a bipartisan solution if it just comes to an end.

And you could just let it end.  You don’t have to do anything, and it goes away.  And if it does, it will be because the Democrat majority House passed it like that and Governor Hassan signed the thing.

 

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