LePage vetoes Medicaid expansion funding 4 days before people can apply to enroll
Source: Portland Press Herald
Gov. Paul LePage vetoed a $60 million Medicaid expansion funding bill Friday, an expected move that sets up a veto override vote by lawmakers when they return on July 9.
LePage said in a statement Friday evening that he vetoed the bill, passed by the Legislature last week, because lawmakers acted in a fiscally irresponsible manner.
We cannot allow bills to move forward that will harm the economy, the governor said.
LePages veto came as advocates for the voter-approved expansion have been urging the 70,000 Mainers who may be eligible for the government-funded health insurance program to start signing up for it beginning Monday.
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Read more: https://www.pressherald.com/2018/06/29/lepage-vetoes-medicaid-expansion-bill-four-days-before-enrollment-begins/
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yup
msongs
(67,453 posts)PaulX2
(2,032 posts)In Maine.
elmac
(4,642 posts)if people don't like it vote him out or wait for the civil war.
George II
(67,782 posts)eShirl
(18,504 posts)He learned meanness, and grew up to be a Republican.
PatrickforO
(14,592 posts)suffering among people?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Sad. Weak.
still_one
(92,422 posts)being
MarcA
(2,195 posts)Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)It was because the left and far left of Maine split the vote. Twice.
Midnight Writer
(21,803 posts)Do the citizens of Maine not realize that most Medicaid funding goes to help former working class folk who have exhausted their savings, sold their homes and have no other option?
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)Then it drops down to 90% after 2020. So what is LePage complaining about in regards to it's harmful to their economy?
It's harmful to the Republican idea of being cruel to poor people who need to see a doctor, that's what. Plain and simple. They are pure evil.
MBS
(9,688 posts)The cruelty alone is staggering. What is it with the Trumpistas and the alt right? They seem actually to enjoy the harm they do to people's lives. The more harm, and the more people harmed (as long as it's not themselves), the better. It's sick as well as evil.