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Minnesota fears hefty hit from aiding poor(MN is freaking out)
StarTribune ^ | 10/12/09 | Keven Diaz

Posted on 10/12/2009 3:12:47 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Minnesota and other states are worried that emerging plans to overhaul the nation's health care system could leave them facing a expensive new obligation to cover the poor without the money to pay for it.

As the health care debate speeds toward a climax in Congress, cash-strapped state officials are running the numbers to gauge the impact on their budgets, which are already bleeding red ink from hard economic times.

Minnesota's two U.S. senators, both Democrats, are taking notice. In a letter last week to Senate Democratic leaders, Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken expressed general support for health care changes that expand Medicaid, the federal-state program for low-income children, pregnant women and disabled people.

But they cautioned that parts of a Senate health care bill could harm states such as Minnesota that have more generous Medicaid eligibility policies. The $829 billion bill, which comes up for a vote Tuesday, would give states with less generous benefits a greater share of federal assistance in order to raise their coverage levels.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 111th; healthcare; medicaid; obamacare; pricetag; unfundedmandates; welfare
Chickens......home.......roost
1 posted on 10/12/2009 3:12:47 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken

I haven't been to the Cities, but I have been up North. How the hell did this happen?

2 posted on 10/12/2009 3:17:41 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Dont Tread on Me)
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To: cardinal4

“I haven’t been to the Cities, but I have been up North. How the hell did this happen? “

Three answers, ACORN, sleaziness, and democrats.


3 posted on 10/12/2009 3:21:40 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: cardinal4

ACORN.


4 posted on 10/12/2009 3:23:08 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR.....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: cardinal4

Suddenly, it isn’t fun anymore, giving away money to people who have no intention of ever being a productive member of society...

Or, even live in Minnesota.


5 posted on 10/12/2009 3:25:35 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR.....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

they should jsut go to Obama’s stash:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZ-Etb0k0Q


6 posted on 10/12/2009 3:35:27 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: Da Coyote
No question Franken is an ACORN diaper baby.
Did anyone in the MN GOP see this coming ?
7 posted on 10/12/2009 3:39:31 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Wow!!

Thanks.....hadn’t heard that one!!


8 posted on 10/12/2009 3:39:34 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR.....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

9 posted on 10/12/2009 3:43:41 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: cardinal4
How the hell did this happen?

I think it was obvious that ACORN and at least a few Democrats continued "finding" and creating votes long after the election was over.

Poor Norm Coleman and the Republicans stopped after election day, that was a big mistake.

10 posted on 10/12/2009 3:55:46 PM PDT by RJL
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

That’s one of the points to all this, to transfer large parts of the costs to the States.


11 posted on 10/12/2009 5:06:12 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: LachlanMinnesota

So, then, what about state’s rights?


12 posted on 10/12/2009 5:15:42 PM PDT by Achilles Heel
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To: Achilles Heel

Many feel it is a quaint idea, but when has it been possible to refuse federal mandates? It may be the concept that saves us, but the courts need to recognize those rights when litigation is started to sort it out.


13 posted on 10/13/2009 3:04:53 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Hey Minnesota, you wanted him, you got him.


14 posted on 10/13/2009 3:06:36 PM PDT by dfwgator
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