Or perhaps Maine could do away with their socialized medicine program.
The Maine lawmakers suck the big one! I am so sick of them I can just barf!
Always picking on the smokers. Always picking on the smokers.
What pleasures in life do our Elderly have? And he wants to take away their smokes OR TAX them more.
He's a RAT if I ever saw one!
It's not that simple. State and federal Medicare/Medicaid are viciously intertwined. The federal government takes taxes from the citizens of each state and then sets the rules for Medicare/Medicaid. Even though the state still ends up bearing significant costs, it won't get it portion of federal tax revenue back if it does anything that violates federal regulations.