Posted on 09/22/2009 10:42:15 AM PDT by rellimpank
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid secured a deal today that would give Nevada full, 100 percent funding in the Senate health care bill for an initial expansion of Medicaid.
The agreement reached with the committee chairman comes after Reid vowed last week to strike a better deal for Nevada before bringing any legislation to the floor.
Reid took heat from Republican Rep. Nathan Deal of Georgia who bemoaned the majority leader’s powerful reach into Senate negotiations to improve the bill for Nevada.
The deal would give Nevada full funding for the first five years of the program — an effort to ease concerns that Nevada would be unable to afford the federally-mandated expansion of care for the poor.
The Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, announced today that struggling states — particularly those with high unemployment rates — would receive the full funding for the first five years of the expansion. Nevada’s unemployment rate is the second highest in the nation
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Do you want Congress divvying-up your access to health care as just one more piece of political pork? Think about it, America!
Harry “Screw everyone else” Reid
Vote buying corruption. Book him for outrageous corruption.
What a corrupt little toadie!
Nevada has to take out the trash next year.
How can one state get a “better deal” than another?
The corruption is incredible. Obama *IS* ACORN but the rest of the Dem Party is also ACORN.
We’ll just kill a few more grammas in some other state.
Your hands drip with blood, Harry.
Reid faces some real problems in 2010 and may not hold his seat. Time to start delivering every available bribe to his home state. Votes don’t come cheap.
only his state?
THERE’s 50 STATES (maybe even 57, per Obama) - why would one state get a better deal than any other?
What a piece of ...
Reid my boy....trying to buy the votes...one way or another...sorry my boy...outta time....people are on to you......BU BYE!!!!
2010 THEME SONG FOR GROSS IGNORANT POLITICIANS - “BYE, BYE BYE”
Corrupt POS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It will interesting to do the math and find out how much NV actually puts into the Medicare pot than what it pulls out. This is nothing more than ant states having to subsidize grasshopper states. In the immortal word of Harry Reid, the Healthcare Debate is Lost!!
Scrambling to buy back votes.
--IMHO, it helped with his defeat--
One thing that makes it hard for me to take the new gov health care seriously is that they are not talking about disbanding the old gov health care programs in the process. If they were, it might give them a little more credibility.
Am I reading this correct,,,,it is not equal for all? Deals cut and some states (democrat I presume) will get a better “deal” then other states? Is MS. Obama going to talk about who gets “crushed”?
This is what keeps these crooked scum-buckets in office. They bring home the bacon and everyone else be damned. I couldn’t stand uncle Ted for this crap. There is no concern or consideration for even trying to cut, it’s all about porking and selfishness.
and staying in office. He is runing scared.
Can Senators be Impeached?? Recalled??? or ?????.
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