"The state Senate, with Republican support, has backed an expansion plan that relies on market-based insurance. But House Republicans, led by Speaker William J. Howell (Stafford), are deaf to financial prudence and plain horse sense. For years, they blithely expanded the state’s Medicaid program on the basis of 50-50 cost sharing with the federal government. Yet now that the Obama administration has proposed an expansion that is a vastly better deal for the state — the feds would pick up 100 percent of the cost for three years, then 90 percent starting in 2021 — Mr. Howell and his colleagues refuse. In the process, they decline to make any proposal of their own that would cover hundreds of thousands of the state’s working poor."
The Republicans in the house are not with them. The House Republicans are playing national politics with the lives of our neediest and the budget of our state.
We have already missed out in 330 million federal dollars and rising.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/virginia-republicans-stand-against-medicaid-funding-defies-the-facts/2014/03/06/8985d31c-a57b-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html
The Republicans in the house are not with them. The House Republicans are playing national politics with the lives of our neediest and the budget of our state.
We have already missed out in 330 million federal dollars and rising.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/virginia-republicans-stand-against-medicaid-funding-defies-the-facts/2014/03/06/8985d31c-a57b-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html