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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Medicaid Expansion
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Not a good record for someone who was once so well-regarded by conservatives that he was viewed as a potentially ideologically balancing choice to join the GOP ticket with Mitt Romney.[read_more] First, the reason we’re dealing with potential Medicaid expansion now is because the McDonnell…
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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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My feelings about the former Governor who once held so much promise.
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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…
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Governor Terry McAuliffe won’t admit it, but his words and actions demonstrate acute awareness of the political and legal obstacles to his stated goal of expanding Medicaid administratively, without approval from the General Assembly. He has lost, but continues to play to the Democrat base.…