This post was originally published on September 19. It has been updated to include commentary on certain responses to our suspicions that the appropriations bill passed last week may have made it easier for Gov. McAuliffe to expand Medicaid on his own.
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In what was supposed to be just a session to debate Medicaid expansion and judges, the General Assembly is preparing to reconvene tomorrow where they will be asked to consider a new appropriations bill, just over two months into the fiscal year. They should reject…
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The special session of the Virginia legislature being reconvened this week has always been billed as the time when legislators would finally have a fair and open debate on Medicaid expansion without being held hostage to the budget. Now, we’ve learned that a new budget…
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Announcing his plans earlier this morning, Gov. McAuliffe says he’s using his executive powers to add just 25,000 people to Virginia’s Medicaid rolls. The key bit here is that this modest expansion is only to the existing Medicaid program, and is not an expansion of…
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Washington Irving’s famous character Rip Van Winkle shirked difficult work, and ended up sleeping through the hardships of the Revolutionary War. Much like his apparent namesake, Democrat candidate for the House of Delegates in Virginia’s 48th District, Rip Sullivan, is also apparently fond of sleeping…
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Democrat candidate nailed by radio host Mark Levin and 10th District GOP Chairman John Whitbeck. John Foust, the Democrat running against Del. Barbara Comstock to succeed retiring 10th District Congressman Frank Wolf, has lately been lashing out at Comstock for her votes against expanding Medicaid…
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[UPDATE – 09/19/14: I retract the portion of this story that deals with Medicaid expansion. Subsequent events suggest the September reconvening of the special session was undertaken to provide the Governor an act of appropriation, not to make it politically more difficult for him to…