TANSTAFFL – There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. No matter what it is, SOMEone has to pay when some service or product is consumed. The only question is who will get the bill. That said, it seems like the Republican elected officials want us to either:
- Not watch their hands while they play the Political 3-card Monte shill game on us
- Actually want us to believe that they are most able to suspend this most basic Law of Economics.
Or both. I grow weary of the political charades by which Republican elected officials tell us things, contrary to any kind of common-sense, basic language skills, logical reasoning and the Platform, and in which we know is deliberately false. Not only that, but for journalists that don’t bother to challenge them on these falsehoods to the point that I don’t know who is whose lapdog and sycophant.
Like this nitwittery of the Kabuki Republican Theater (reformatted, emphasis mine):
The debate over whether New Hampshire should keep more than 45,000 residents on subsidized health insurance is set to dominate the State House when lawmakers return to Concord in January. New Hampshire’s Medicaid expansion plan will expire at the end of 2016, when federal funding drops below 100 percent, if lawmakers don’t vote to reauthorize it. Officials estimate the state will be on the hook for at least $12 million in 2017 and more in future budgets.
Got that? Yet NH State Republican Senators (like Chuck Morse, Jeb Bush, Nancy Stiles, Jeannie Forrester) PROMISED us that NO NH taxpayers would be on the hook for this – EVAH! Of course, they expected us to ignore the fact that most of us in NH are ALSO Federal Taxpayers – they must believe us to be that stupid. Yup, they’re about to do the same thing, albeit from a different direction (or if you want, using a different shell for the shill).
Needing support from a Republican-controlled Legislature, the program’s future will depend on whether lawmakers can find a way to pay for the added costs without taxpayers footing the bill.
But we are, Mr./Ms Concord Monitor Editorial – and you know that, you Big Government enabler rumpswab! You must love being the “cover -upper” for all taxes, wanting us to believe that just because a tax is levied at one level, it has no effect on taxpayers at another. Yes, you too want to believe that NO person in NH pays Federal taxes. And one wonders why we call you “Pravada on the Merrimack”? It ain’t just because of your Leftist leanings…
Alongside Medicaid expansion, top issues in 2016 will include the substance abuse crisis, school funding and shoring up the state’s highway fund. The session begins Jan. 6. With the November election looming, Republican legislative leaders are wary of kicking more than 40,000 people off health insurance plans.
Right – the pincer movement that politicians run all the time. This time, the bottom jaw was “will affect no NH taxpayer” combined with “if it does, we’ll drop it”. And just as many of us Conservatives said at the time, these turncoat Rs would then dropkick down to the standard Democrat manuver of once a substantial number of voters get yet another taste from Sugah Govt, there’s no turning back – once something “free” is given, it can never be taken back.
In reality, these Rs are proving that old saw true – and doing the Democrats dirty work for them. Ray Buckley probably needs side surgery for the splits in his side – it gets no better than this for when your political opponents are slitting their own throats with respect to their own base.
Unless, of course, they no longer are the opponents…
But some elements of the party are strongly opposed to continuing Medicaid expansion, a signature piece of President Obama’s health care overhaul law.
New Hampshire’s program is unique in that it aims to use federal dollars to put low-income people on private health insurance plans. Come Jan. 1, most Medicaid expansion recipients will be on private plans.
Big deal what it’s called, it’s still a shill. Doubt me? Just ask the movers behind this “Would you have done this if the Obamacare money wasn’t there” (the root of all this evil – “free money” until is isn’t free anymore)? The answer would be no and it reveals the Progressive nature of the Republicans doing this.
And here’s the other kicker – aNOTHER shill about to be played. Remember, one of the main arguments made FOR taking the money was that the poor hospitals were going broke paying for all those uninsured patients flooding the Emergency Rooms. After all, our vaunted legislators (Federal, this time) mandated that ANY person coming into an ER had to be cared for, regardless of their ability to pay.
Leaving the hospitals on the hook. So, what are the Republicans in Concord contemplating on doing? Yup, another shill:
Any funding solution is likely to involve the state’s hospitals, which are benefiting financially from Medicaid expansion because fewer uninsured people are coming into the emergency rooms.
Ta-DAH! Oh, those rich hospitals are about to get the beat down aGAIN from those that don’t believe in the Free Market and continue to distort it (and if memory serves me right, one of them was quite angry, a few years ago, that government red tape, regulations, and “moving of the goalposts” was making it almost unprofitable to open up a new commercial venture he was trying to start up). Hypocrite.
This also sound just like the tax applied to the insurance companies issuing policies on the Exchanges – the EXACT same reasoning was applied in the law in that since the law demanded that people had to purchase healthcare insurance from insurance companies, these companies were going to have a windfall. And windfalls are EVIL (even when government sponsored, I guess), so they got taxed for the “opportunity” of being so privileged.
Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, a chief architect of the plan, has been meeting with the hospitals, which could help pay for continued expansion.
Yeah, like PSNH / Eversource lucked out so well with his involvement – oops!
And of course, no article would be complete without hearing from the Democrat appointed Speaker of the NH House Jasper (R):
House Speaker Shawn Jasper says he will only support continuing the program if it does not cost taxpayers.
Well, sport, it will. It has already and is currently. Our expectations will be that you’ll do what your Democrat Overlords will demand for their piece of your hide.
(H/T: Concord Monitor)
