Posted on 10/10/2013 11:21:33 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
Gov. Jan Brewer said Wednesday that she does not want U.S. House Republicans to succeed in their bid to shut down the Affordable Care Act, saying it would devastate the state budget.
Brewer said she has never been a fan of Obamacare. And she pointed out she was among several governors who sued unsuccessfully to have it declared unconstitutional.
But the governor said once it was clear the law would take effect, she sought ways to have Arizona take advantage of a key provision rewarding states that expand their Medicaid programs. In this state, that is the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, which she described as the gold standard of Medicaid programs.
And she said that made it worthwhile to fight with members of her own Republican Party, to the point of forming an alliance with legislative Democrats, to push the plan through.
The bottom line is we need that money in our economy to save rural hospitals and jobs in the rural areas, the governor said, as well as making sure hospitals in metropolitan areas, where most AHCCCS patients are seen, get paid. Its all about jobs and getting back federal dollars that our taxpayers have paid to the federal government, to bring them home.
Brewer estimates the Affordable Care Act will produce $1.6 billion in payments a year to the states Medicaid program. And she said there is no direct cost to Arizona taxpayers, with the states share being paid by a tax on hospitals.
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Did she not have the power to stop zero from a second term? Didn’t she have an eligibility bill on her desk that signing it would require documentation to prove presidential eligibility?
If Arizona had done that, how many other states would have done so also?
Ah yes, the cocaine hustled by the central government for a couple of years. Once addicted, the same central government takes away the drugs leaving the costly addiction behind. Karl Marx is smiling in hell.
She’s not only willing to SELL THE U.S. CONSTITUTION OUT FOR MONEY, she’s PROUD OF IT!
She doesn’t get it. Obamacare was never designed to work, it was designed to fail...
...now she can lay in it!
If you read this you will find “Barry” was pretty RINO’y/GOP-ey and squishy about alot of things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater
she was a fool to take the money and her lack of leadership deserves failure.
The bottom line is we need that money in our economy to save rural hospitals and jobs in the rural areas, the governor said, as well as making sure hospitals in metropolitan areas, where most AHCCCS patients are seen, get paid. Its all about jobs and getting back federal dollars that our taxpayers have paid to the federal government, to bring them home.
Couple of things, Jan: How’d your state keep those rural places going before those federal dollars?
You didn’t pay those dollars, Jan...Bernanke created them. You just said “no no “ a couple times then shucked your panties and bent over.
Huh-unh...not working for me.
Another Republican Coward squawks!
***The bottom line is we need that money in our economy to save rural hospitals and jobs in the rural areas, the governor said,...***
Music to obama’s ears...
Lay with dogs and you get fleas...
Make deals with the Devil and you lose your soul...
Selling Liberty for a few pieces of silver.
In fact, as previously mentioned in related threads, Justice John Marshall had officially clarified that Congress has no constitutional authority to regulate, tax and spend in the name of 10th Amendment-protected state issues, healthcare being a state issue.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress (emphases added)." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824."Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So Gov. Brewer is actually complaining about funds that she should arguably have tried to prevent from leaving her state in the first place in the form of constitutionally indefensible federal taxes.
FUJB
Vichy jan.
Oooops! Should have listened to your constituents and stuck to your principles, too bad.
Cowards disgust me.
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