Part 3 follow up – Cornerstone: On House Passage of Gender-Bender Bills – HB 1560

So now the Republican are assisting the Democrats in shoving NH closer and closer to a broad-based tax?  Jeb Bradley and Chuck Morse have all but said it by trying to show what was their MAHvelous Obamacare Medicaid Expansion plan into “managed care” plans (anyone else have a bad experience with HMOs in the past?  Bueller? Bueller?) in trying to contain costs they incurred by shoving 50,000 additional able-bodied workers (many, many already covered by private insurance) onto the Public Dole.  And now the R’s have decided that Federal / NH taxpayers are going to give up even more for what should be elective surgery (or at the least, their costs instead of our costs).

Here are the votes of Republicans on HB 1560: “prohibiting Medicaid from paying for sex reassignment drug or hormone therapy or surgery.” which was voted ITL (Inexpedient to Legislate where the translation is “down in flames”) by a vote of 188-140:

(H/T: Cornerstone)