Posted on 08/09/2011 5:56:17 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON - Kansas became on Tuesday the second U.S. state to return a large federal grant meant to help it create a prototype health insurance exchange as part of the Obama administration's healthcare overhaul. Republican Governor Sam Brownback said the state would give back the $31.5 million it received from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to become an early leader, along with six other states, in establishing health insurance exchanges that other local government could use as a model.
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I don’t see recipients of welfare checks or food stamps EVER returning them, to show their disdain for handouts....and being self-reliant.
America rising! Roh! Roh! Roh!
Nice irony!
Isn’t K-Seb from Kansas?
What other states?
Florida, I believe
I guess Texas isn’t one of them.
Thanks
Isn’t K-Seb from Kansas?”
You betcha - Stick that in your eye Sillybus! Have bunch of friends who live there and she is not one of their favorites.
Actually, Kitty Sebelius is from Ohio, the daughter of a former Governor there.
She is a stealth carpetbagger who married a republican name and got elected to Insurance Commissioner, after a stint as a lobbyist for the trial lawyers. She managed to get elected because rinos were in the majority then. Things have changed.
BTW, once when she was in either Oregon or Washington, she commented to their governor about the wonderful wine they produced there, saying “If the wine is from Kansas, don’t drink it”, being totally clueless that there are wineries in Kansas, and she had just insulted a home agricultural industry.
Kitty is a despicable person.
Yeah she’s the daughter of idiot lib John Gilligan.
I lived in Ohio back then.
A State-with-Stones bump!!!!
July 18, 2011: Gov. Rick Perry signs health care reform bill into law; Texas fourth state to pass health care compacts bill
"With the signature of Gov. Rick Perry today, Texas has joined three other states stating their intention to enter into a health care compact.
The compact, which would challenge the authority of the federal government to dictate the terms of the federally and state funded Medicaid program, was part of a wide-ranging health care reform bill, Senate Bill 7, passed by the Texas Legislature in its recently concluded special session.
Georgia, Oklahoma and Missouri have already signed onto the compacts movement, with Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signing a bill into law on Thursday.
The law establishes Texas, along with the other three states, as pioneers in an uncharted use of Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution which allows states to enter into agreements that, with the approval of Congress, cannot be abridged by the federal government. There are more than 200 state compacts currently in effect, nearly all of them related to commerce.”…..
Ping to article in comment above.
But Rep. Shelia Jackson-Lee and her Democratic Party wanted Perry's signature so the "money would flow to our schools within days."
Gov. Perry sued for Texas' money (without Washington telling us how to spend it) -- And won! Promise Kept.
Gov. Perry sued for Texas' money (without Washington telling us how to spend it) -- And won! Promise Kept.
Oh yes. I saw what Perry did. I like it very much too.
It’s going to take all of us working together and states networking to tackle this problem.
TN’s moderate (rino) gov won’t do it, I can almost bet you on it. We have Tenncare, another form of Medicaid, supposedly for the non insurable and low income. We are in our 3rd round of gutting it, it is so rift with waste, fraud, abuse, and illegals.
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