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WASHINGTON (AP) The explosive politics of health care have divided the nation, but America's governors, Republicans and Democrats alike, suggest that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is here to stay.
While governors from Connecticut to Louisiana sparred on Sunday over how best to improve the nation's economy, governors of both parties shared a far more pragmatic outlook on the controversial program known as "Obamacare" as millions of their constituents begin to be covered.
"We're just trying to make the best of a bad situation," Republican Gov. Terry Branstad, of Iowa, who calls the health care law "unaffordable and unsustainable," yet something he has to implement by law. "We're trying to make it work as best we can for the people of Iowa."
As governors gathered in Washington this weekend, Democratic governors such as Maryland's Martin O'Malley and Connecticut's Dannel Malloy made pitches to raise the minimum wage, while Republican governors such as Louisiana's Bobby Jindal and Indiana's Mike Pence called for more freedom from federal regulations, particularly those related to the health insurance overhaul. But governors from both parties report that a full repeal of the law would be complicated at best, if not impossible, as states move forward with implementation and begin covering millions of people both by expanding Medicaid rolls for lower-income resident or through state or federal exchanges that offer federal subsidies to those who qualify.
full: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/governors-solutions-tend-mirror-partisan-lines
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)riversedge
(70,299 posts)in WI -Walker and his Repups are not helping with enrollment at all. And he did NOT expand medicare. Our premiums are much higher than our neighboring state Minnesota.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)And team knew it would never make it through Congress so they used the GOP plan from Massachusetts.
47of74
(18,470 posts)mimi85
(1,805 posts)Not that we need to worry about it here. Damn, I'm so glad I live in a blue state. Even though I live in a ridiculously red area. If our mortgage wasn't so low, we'd be out of here in a heartbeat. Sure would love to live back in Monterey. Sigh.
This seems to be a popular topic today as well it should be.
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