By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Another week of steadily twiddling thumbs at the state capitol. The hangup still seems to be AHCCCS/Medicaid restoration. Many of the Rs in the legislature, led by Senate President Andy Biggs (R-Gilbert) have dug in their heels, blocking anything. It's gotten so bad that the Arizona Republic … Read more
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings First, learn about the governor's proposal at a training session on Thursday – AHCCCS Training Session on The Governor’s Medicaid Coverage Plan PURPOSE: The future of Medicaid is at a critical time. Support for the Governor’s Plan is needed to ensure that over 60,000 people do not … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Wingnuttia is all atwitter over an Oregon Medicaid study that they claim demonstrates that Medicaid does not improve the health of people on Medicaid. So I assume their points are to say that "Medicaid doesn't work" so "you are on your own" and if you are seriously ill perhaps you "should die and decrease the surplus population."
This is what happens when GOPropagandists — who did not read this complex research study because, really, who cares? — are paid to push simpleton bumper sticker memes about the evils of "socialized ObamaCare."
So before you get buried under a mound of bullshit from wingnuttia in the battle over Governor Brewer's Medicaid restoration/expansion plan, here are some articles to help you sort out fact from GOPropaganda.
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
During the 2012 campaign, Ethan Orr (aka "E.Orr") fashioned himself after moderate Tucson Republicans like
former Reps. Pete Hershberger and Toni Hellon, and said he hopes to work with
the southern Arizona Democratic delegation to pass legislation that can
help the people and Tucson. The local media bought his act. Orr was elected to the House.
Rep. Orr (R-LD 9), voted in favor of HB 2455, which clarifies that local law-enforcement agencies
must sell guns they acquire in situations such as gun buy-back programs
— even where the gun owner voluntarily surrenders his or her weapon for the express purpose that their weapon be safely destroyed by law enforcement.
HB 2455 is a bill that was introduced by the gun worshipers and fetishists in direct response to Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik's gun buy-back program earlier this year. It is a bill fashioned by our "big brother" colonial overlords in the state of Maricopa to subjugate the City of Tucson and to micromanage the affairs of this charter city. "Small government" conservative is just a lie.
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Mullah Cathi Herrod and her Christian Taliban at the Center for Arizona Policy (CAP) have emerged as a principal opponent of Governor Jan Brewer's Medicaid (AHCCCS) restoration plan. These fetus fetish anti-abortion extremists, who imagine abortion lurking in every bill in their fevered minds, have put forward specious claims that the Governor's plan will somehow "indirectly" provide funding for abortions, even though state and federal law has long prohibited such funding.
These radical extremists would rather see real live cancer patients and transplant patients in desperate need of AHCCCS healthcare coverage die, because they imagine a fictional fetus might somehow, someday be aborted. I fail to discern any "Christianity" in this position. WWJD?
The Arizona Republic reports,
Arizona abortion issue heightens Medicaid standoff:
[Gov.] Brewer’s office is preparing language, to be amended onto a separate
bill, that would ensure no federal expansion funding goes to health-care
providers that perform abortions.
The move is a response to lobbying from Cathi Herrod, president of
the Center for Arizona Policy, who says Medicaid expansion would
subsidize abortions — a claim that puts in a political vise
anti-abortion GOP lawmakers who back the governor’s proposal.
[Herrod first raised the abortion issue in late March in a letter to
Brewer, using an opinion from a Christian legal-defense organization to
argue that the draft Medicaid legislation should be amended to
disqualify the non-profit women’s health provider Planned Parenthood and
other abortion providers from receiving public money.]
“In response to some of the concerns raised by lawmakers, the
governor has been willing to revisit this issue,” Brewer spokesman
Matthew Benson said Tuesday. “It’s become clear that it would be
difficult to move forward with Medicaid restoration until some of these
legislative concerns about abortion are addressed.”