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Christie/Repub Governors sign on to Healthcare law

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Gov. Christie backs Obama healthcare law Medicaid expansion

By Sam Baker - 02/26/13 01:08 PM ET





New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday became the eighth Republican governor to endorse the Medicaid expansion in President Obama's healthcare law.


Christie's decision is another big political win for Obama and his signature legislative achievement. Although Christie isn't the most conservative governor to accept the Medicaid expansion, he's the most serious contender for the 2016 presidential nomination to sign on.
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The opportunity to significantly expand healthcare coverage with minimal costs to the state has proved attractive to many governors, including several GOP stalwarts.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Gov. Rick Scott have also embraced the Medicaid expansion. Scott drew particular scorn from conservatives, given that he led the historic lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act — and the Medicaid expansion, specifically — as unconstitutional.

The Medicaid expansion will cover about 100,000 people in New Jersey, Christie said.


Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/medicaid/284963-report-christie-to-back-obamacare-medicaid-expansion#ixzz2M4NbGpUI
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kolanuraven said:
They all will sign on....


I agree- and as more and more see the truths to the Health Care law more will readily accept/embrace it.. In the political partisanship gameplaying and fearmongering there was so much false info put out to scare people away from it -- that is now just being found out to be untrue by the public..
A good example in todays news:


Poll: Four in 10 think illegals are covered by Obama healthcare law

By Elise Viebeck - 02/27/13 12:01 AM ET





Four in 10 people incorrectly believe that President Obama's healthcare law provides benefits to illegal immigrants, a new poll revealed Wednesday.

This figure comprises about one in three Democrats and more than half of Republicans, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, which conducted the survey.

In all, 42 percent believe that the Affordable Care Act extends insurance subsidies or Medicaid eligibility to illegal aliens, which it does not. About one in four say they are not sure.
 

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Oldtimer said:
kolanuraven said:
They all will sign on....


I agree- and as more and more see the truths to the Health Care law more will readily accept/embrace it.. In the political partisanship gameplaying and fearmongering there was so much false info put out to scare people away from it -- that is now just being found out to be untrue by the public..
A good example in todays news:


Poll: Four in 10 think illegals are covered by Obama healthcare law

By Elise Viebeck - 02/27/13 12:01 AM ET





Four in 10 people incorrectly believe that President Obama's healthcare law provides benefits to illegal immigrants, a new poll revealed Wednesday.

This figure comprises about one in three Democrats and more than half of Republicans, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, which conducted the survey.

In all, 42 percent believe that the Affordable Care Act extends insurance subsidies or Medicaid eligibility to illegal aliens, which it does not. About one in four say they are not sure.


Have you totally lost your mind?

Obamacare will increase the long-term federal deficit by $6.2 trillion, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), who requested the report, revealed the findings this morning at a Senate Budget Committee hearing. The report, he said, “confirms everything critics and Republicans were saying about the faults of this bill,” and “dramatically proves that the promises made assuring the nation that the largest new entitlement program in history would not add one dime to the deficit were false.”

President Obama and other Democrats attempted to win support for the health-care bill by touting it as a fiscally responsible enterprise. “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future,” Obama told a joint-session of Congress in September 2009. “I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period.
 
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