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This year, the state legislature will decide the future of expanding the state’s Medicaid program to able-bodied adults under ObamaCare. Medicaid expansion – passed in 2014 by a legislature more sympathetic to ObamaCare and growing government – expires later this year, and some of our elected officials are seeking to make it permanent.

In early 2013, when ObamaCare proponents pursued adding able-bodied adults to the Medicaid program, they offered three reasons for adding thousands of individuals to a program that is already the largest in state government. All three premises have proven to be false.

First, expansion supporters argued that adding people to Medicaid would improve their health. Then, a Harvard/MIT study showed no discernable improvement in physical health for those on Medicaid versus the uninsured, and the expansion proponents quickly dropped that argument.

Next,

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Oh, btw, my whole take on this “The Academy Awards are racist”?

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Jeb Bradley’s Health Care CON board bill is on the State Senate to-do list today. It sounds like your average, run-of-the-mill regulatory business as usual, which is usually bad enough. This particular bit of regulatory “business as usual” is much worse.

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On Saturday a video clip from C-SPAN was posted of Presidential candidate John Kasich speaking to the New Hampshire House Legislature about Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion. Kasich applauded the legislature for adding another big welfare program in the state. Unfortunately Kasich also lied about the program.

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Yesterday during the First In The Nation (FITN) Town Hall, Dr. Betsy McCaughey, former Lieutenant Governor of New York, spoke to attendees about Obamacare. She has long been a vocal opponent to the massive regulations that have hurt Americans’ healthcare across the country. Not only did McCaughey speak to the crowd but she also sat down for an interview with Examiner to specifically discuss Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion in the Granite State.

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I’ve pretty much stayed out of the “Trump is a conservative / no he’s not” mess that is raging in the part of the Right political blogosphere.  Sure, I’m watching it as it is part of the messy sausage making process of who we end up have representing us.  But I will say that the intensity, as we are mere weeks from the Iowa caucus and the NH Primary, has ramped up exponentially.  And yes, behind the ‘Grok email closed door, it rages there as well – after all, we are an extremely opinionated bunch (er, that’s why you come to read us, right?).

I have endorsed Ted Cruz, so take this with a grain of salt.  I have written about Trump in the vein of mostly praising him for bringing up issues that the Establishment Republicans just didn’t want have in the election (they assault their blue nosed sensibilities) even as we, their base, have consistently said they were important.  We’ve been suffocated by the Left’s tool of politicial correctness even as the R elite cowered before it as well. And a lot of “Establishment Conservative Pundits” have fallen in front of this onslaught as well – saying something at time but certainly not full throated roars of attacking the Left attacker (except for us at the ‘Grok as you all well know).  Give him credit where credit is due: Trump has ripped that shroud to ribbons and has run roughshod on the enables of the Left – the mainstream media. ‘Bout time somebody did.

He’s has said a lot of rough things, but I do believe that he has just had his Edwin Edwards moment (that corrupt Louisiana Democrat that famously said “The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy“)…

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Or as Papa Smurf (John Sununu) famously used to say “Talk, talk, talk” to your family, friends, and neighbors to get them to convince them to join with the Republican Party.  Like just pointed out here, Trump has and is doing exactly what he told people to do.

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If you don’t know, comedienne Joy Behar is the reigning doyenne “The View”, that overwhelming hot bed of daytime chatter, said this of Democrat Socialist Bernie Sanders (emphasis mine):

“He calls himself a socialist. He’s just a liberal. He’s a liberal. He’s as liberal as Obama.”

Well now, that pretty much pegs Obama, doesn’t it?  After all,

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