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Bolling Urges Warner and Webb to Not Support Health Care Reform
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Posted on 12/21/2009 12:19:34 PM PST by Def Conservative

Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling sent a strongly worded letter to Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner Monday expressing outrage over special concessions given to certain states to obtain support for federal health care legislation from their Senators and asking them to oppose this legislation, which Bolling called “misguided.”

“As you know, one of our major concerns with this legislation is the potential impact it could have on the cost of Medicaid for Virginia’s state government,” wrote Bolling. “Many reports have suggested that this legislation could result in much higher Medicaid costs for state governments across the nation, costs that state governments simply cannot bear.”

In his letter, Bolling cited reports from this past weekend that the Senate’s Democratic leadership had made concessions to Senator Ben Nelson that would hold his home state of Nebraska harmless for any additional Medicaid costs that might come about as a result of the enrollment of new Medicaid recipients after 2017, while all 49 other states would be required to pay a portion of the increased costs. This reportedly would save Nebraska $45M per year, while passing these costs on to other states.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; boiling; bolling; jimwebb; markwarner; virginia; warner; webb
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To: marstegreg

If the bill goes to conference committee then yes it will be voted on again.

No problem, I’ve got plenty of time on my hands what with all the global warming on the ground.


21 posted on 12/21/2009 1:02:27 PM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Def Conservative

Thank you, Lt. Gov. Bolling. Any help with these cretins is greatly appreciated.


22 posted on 12/21/2009 1:04:24 PM PST by fightinJAG (Mr. President: Why did you appoint a bunch of Communists to your Administration?)
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To: saganite

I like you...You make me laugh! :)

I can relax a little now...I know Pelosi will put all the junk they took out, right back in!

Thanks again...and a very Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!


23 posted on 12/21/2009 1:11:24 PM PST by marstegreg
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To: pepperhead; All
Kaine Won't Rule Out Tax Hikes to Preserve Virginia Services.

Obamacare = Big State Tax Increases.

Since Democrats currently control the vast majority of governorships, this process of making their own party members take the rap for raising taxes is politically self-destructive in the extreme. But Obama is so desperate to pass his health care legislation that he doesn’t care what havoc in his party he reaps in the process.

The question now is whether the governors of the fifty states, particularly the Democrats, are going to sit idly by and let their budgets be destroyed by the health care bill.

24 posted on 12/21/2009 1:28:40 PM PST by fightinJAG (Mr. President: Why did you appoint a bunch of Communists to your Administration?)
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To: pepperhead

I believe that today the South Carolina State Attorney General has been directed to give an opinion of the act’s constitutionality.


25 posted on 12/21/2009 6:56:09 PM PST by sergeantdave
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