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Trump Budget Director tells VA Republicans…Don’t Expand Medicaid!

written by Mick Staton March 1, 2018

Well, Virginia Republicans can’t say they haven’t been warned.

On Wednesday, the Office of Management and Budget released a statement via its official Twitter account on the subject of Medicaid expansion at the state level…and it was not good news for expansion fans:

Director @MickMulvaneyOMB’s statement on the Obamacare Medicaid Expansion in Virginia.

ICYMI → https://t.co/mxoeDtqgjs pic.twitter.com/i6utCFLXbN

— OMB Press (@OMBPress) March 1, 2018

This is not some vague statement.  This is about as clear as budget-speak gets.

Medicaid expansion is too expensive.

Medicaid expansion is not producing the improved health care for your target audience.

Medicaid expansion is crowding out the truly needy in favor of people who are able to work and take care of themselves.

In short, it is a waste of money, and the Feds are about to shut off the financial spigot.

As I pointed out here, one of the many flaws of Medicaid expansion has been the idea that we would rely on the Federal government to cover over 90% of the costs for the nearly 400,000 people we would be adding to Virginia’s welfare rolls. The concern has been that someday the Feds would cut off the money, and Virginia would be obligated to cover 100% of the costs. Well, the Trump administration is telling us right up front that someday is now and they are looking to end the program and shut down the money.

The timing of this statement is not a coincidence. It is a warning, and it is one Republicans in the Virginia General Assembly need to listen to very carefully.

Do they want to walk up to Capitol Hill, hat in hand, asking pretty please for lots and lots of money to pay for a massive expansion of Government after the Feds have just told them not to expect the money to be there?

Do they want to obligate Virginia to provide health coverage for another 400,000 people after having been told point blank not to do it by the very people they would be counting on to pay for it?

Do they want to alienate their base during an already tough election cycle, and throw all semblance of fiscal responsibility out the window, knowing ahead of time that it is about to blow up in their face?

Speaker Kirk Cox and Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment both need to take this statement for what it is, and pull their respective chambers away from the brink before it’s too late.

Trump Budget Director tells VA Republicans…Don’t Expand Medicaid! was last modified: March 1st, 2018 by Mick Staton
Donald TrumpKirk CoxMick MulvaneyRalph NorthamTommy NormentVA General AssemblyVA House of Delegates
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Mick Staton

Devoted husband and father of five, Mick is a recovering politician who now works in the software development field. He has spent most of his life involved in politics, starting out working for his father's Congressional campaigns in WV when he was 8 years old. Since moving to Loudoun County Mick has served as a precinct captain, district chairman, Loudoun County YR Chairman, and was elected to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in 2003.

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