Charlie Arlinghaus – The NH Senate’s Medicaid Trap

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The real debate is over whether you believe this is a compromise. It isn’t. The biggest difference between the Senate plan and the governor’s is that hers didn’t end. The Senate plan technically only lasts for 2.5 years and has to be reauthorized.

Republicans would have you believe this is a huge concession and means the program simply will not continue past the period of 100 percent federal funding. The Democrats don’t care and don’t even mention it. It’s because they know that no Legislature ever could bring itself to cancel coverage for 50,000 people once it got started.

Read it all at the link above.

And follow Charlie on Twitter @C_Arlinghaus

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  • Steve MacDonald

    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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