Remember way back when Obamacare was passed? The GOP said they opposed it … would replace it … REPEAL AND REPLACE!!! … yet another damn lie from the GOP Establishment. Hat tip to my dear friend Mikey Graham at NH-NeverTrump Journal for a post he’s got up about the NHGOP Senate’s push to make OBAMACARE Medicaid expansion permanent.
In case you had forgotten, Mikey reminds us that:
Gov. Sununu worked with legislators in 2018 to deliver a five-year reauthorization of Medicaid Expansion
Actually, it was much worse than that … Sun-King and his legislative minions CODIFIED virtually all the rest of OBAMACARE too … that is, they made Obamacare … which the GOP was going to REPEAL AND REPLACE until in 2016 they actually got the ability to do so … state LAW in New Hampshire. Such LIARS.
Mikey’s post is instructive because it reveals the people/groups supporting OBAMACARE Medicaid expansion:
Extending Medicaid to low-income Granite Staters has been economically beneficial to the state’s hospital system, according to Steve Ahnen, president of the New Hampshire Hospital Association. …
Business & Industry Association President and CEO Michael Skelton said keeping Medicaid expansion in place is good for businesses … “Hospitals and other caregivers avoid catastrophic loss of revenue and employers and employees across the state will benefit from individuals being healthy enough to work.”
All the talk from the NHGOP about LIMITED GOVERNMENT, INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY, etc. etc. etc. is just that … TALK. There is no Republican Party in New Hampshire … it’s a corporatist party … you will own nothing (i.e. be dependent on government for everything) … and be happy.
The local Koch organization is actually on the right side … my side … on this issue, which I guess reminds us that even a broken clock is right a couple of times a day.
