Gubernatorial Candidate Chris Sununu released an economic plan this past week (Skip mentions it here). As part of the scheme, he supports the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act to help make health care more affordable. Great news except there is a problem. Not that long ago he supported ObamaCare’s expanded Medicaid provision.
“I think it’s probably a good step forward. I like the idea that we’re moving forward without any tax payer burden, any tax burden on the taxpayers back.
We have essentially a public-private partnership helping to fund it as we move forward, and those are very positive steps. What I would like to see is a long term strategy for this state, not simply taking it in two or four year chunks,” Sununu said.
Before I get back to the point about ObamaCare why is Chris Sununu publicly declaring that a federally funded program exists without any taxpayer burden? Even a stupid Republican knows that the Feds plunder working men and women for their spoils. And while Chris is a politician and a Sununu, I don’t think he is stupid. So is the intent here to deceive the New Hampshire taxpaying public? People who pay property taxes and federal income taxes, the latter of which are financing the ObamaCare provision for expanding Medicaid.
If deception is not beyond the pale, then that explains this.
Mr. Sununu was against Medicaid Expansion before he was for it. He was against funding Planned Parenthood with tax dollars before he was for that. If I went on a Google expedition would a larger and more complex pattern emerge or can we just start referring to Chris as “Flipper”?
Medicaid expansion is ObamaCare. The former exists as part and parcel of the latter. And now we’ve got a pledge to slay the monster that authorized the spending that made it possible to expand Medicaid in the first place. A provision whose actual purpose, by the way, is to grow from the bottom up, the federal stranglehold on insurance and care, with an eye toward institutionalizing it as a single-payer system.
You didn’t realize? You thought you’d get by on these “extensions” and then you could just make it somehow go away? Maybe you are stupid after all.
ObamaCare was designed to fail magnificently while the real infrastructure was (not always) quietly implemented with the best of intentions by Democrats and RINO zombie water-carriers like Jeb Bradley, Chuck Morse, and Shawn Jasper; complemented by bobble-head ‘sound-bite ready’ endorsements from politicians like Chris ‘Flipper’ Sununu.
If you’d failed to notice Medicare and Medicaid appear to be creeping toward the middle-aged, middle-class middle. People are being swallowed up by lousy Federal health care programs while the Sununu’s of the political world regurgitate soviet-era progressive nostrums like ‘a good step forward,’ or ‘moving forward,’ but hey, how about a long-term strategy.
Herbert Crowly is smiling up from hell.
Medicaid expansion is the long term strategy.
The shadow of Single Payer is looming. With ObamaCare near ruin or repeal, the Feds can either free themselves of their ObamaCare-driven expanded funding obligations–which could bankrupt any number of state budgets without new or larger tax grabs–or they can shore up the programs states have already developed via ObamaCare.
Republicans would never fall for that you say? They fell for Medicaid Expansion. And which do you think more likely?
Democrats berating Republicans into “moving forward” with the healthcare devil we know (expanding Medicaid and Medicare further toward the middle) or letting Republicans take us “backward” to a wild-west, free-market, cross-border insurance solution that will “leave our most vulnerable” uncovered and well, vulnerable?
You and I and even Flipper know that would be a lie. The interstate insurance solution would create the best coverage options, value, selection, and service through healthy competition. It would save billions on both the taxpayer side and the consumer side at the point of purchase and the point of use. But since when has the knowledge of what will work best been a bigger catalyst to a Republican politician than the fear of being pilloried with lies by Democrats and the media? Portrayed as heartless bastards advancing the agenda of special interests at the expense of our “insert name of victim classes here.”
The truth is irrelevant when dealing with folks like Flipper. The perception is enough to herd these GOP sheep back into the barn while the Progressives take another good step forward with either a growing private-public partnership (fascism) or a public takeover (socialism) of health care. That is the path we’ve been on since before the Sununu’s stopped taking credit for the TEA Party and started bashing them alongside the rest of the political class.
But we need not worry too much. Flipper has assured us there is no taxpayer burden.
