Posted on 05/07/2010 3:32:15 PM PDT by fightinJAG
governors and state attorney generals threatening to dismantle the health care reform bill signed into law by President Obama last month, California’s Democratic leadership and Governor Schwarzenegger have made implementing the new law, with plenty of federal help, a top priority.
This week, Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and Assembly Speaker John Perez (D-Los Angeles) spent Wednesday in Washington, DC in meetings with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and White House staff in hopes of securing billions of federal dollars to implement health care reform.
This DC visit follows a visit by the governor who is credited with bringing in $675 million for reimbursements for Medicare prescription drug benefits.
Specifically, Steinberg and Perez were seeking:
• A Medicaid waiver for $2 billion a year for the next five years to help California implement its health care system before major federal health reform measures take effect in 2014. Specifically, the waiver is being sought for uninsured Californians who earn up to 200 percent of poverty (2010 Federal poverty level for a family of four is $22,050) so that they are eligible for Medi-Cal.
• A six-month extension of an enhanced federal match for the state's Medi-Cal and child welfare programs.
• A one-year extension of federal stimulus funding for social services.
On the other side, California Republican candidates for U.S. Senate are trashing the health care reform bill. Both Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore have signed a pledge to repeal the law, while former Congressman Tom Campbell wants to repeal and replace the law.
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Hilarious aren’t they.
No!No!No! All that aid goes to Illegals!!
We’ve had the Louisiana Purchase and the Cornhusker kickback...now we are about to get the California Shaft.
I think youse and me are the only ones who see the big-time irony here.
If California can’t afford health care now, HELLO. How in Hell’s Bells are they going to pay for Obamacare?
Since I don’t live in California, “federal aid” means out of my pocket.
I was thinking it was the California Whine. But there’s enough to go around, donchathink.
The poor begging money from the poor?? Imagine. California is like Greece. Out of OPM. Begging Obama..also out of OPM for more OPM. The OP’S have no more M.
This is exactly why Walter Williams is right: at some point, the states are going to need to divorce, at least virtually. States that want to be socialist can, so long as they, themselves, come up with the dough. Otherwise, leave the rest of us alone. We want to live free and we want your paws out of our pockets.
These idiots cannot understand that a good job environment creates jobs, which creates wealth, which increases tax revenues...
They want everyone on the dole so they can be the dole-ees
Power. It’s a drug.
I like your’s better. The California Whine it is....
wait....California Golddig?
California Lawmakers Go To DC Begging For Handouts After Bankrupting California!
Grrrr!
Why, thank you.
I think they are all under the main category of “The Shaft.”
So many backroom deals, so many choices!
I’m thinking about leaving California and moving to the United States.
Grrrr is right! And what in the world is going to happen once Obamacare gets rolling?
I was at the doc’s today and a woman came in and asked if the practice was taking new Medicaid patients. The front desk people said “Nope.”
End of discussion.
These morons are pathetic.
Nice! We’d love to have you!
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