Feds say it's okay Arizona - go ahead and drop 250K from medicaid if you want.

Arizona Medicaid cuts OK, feds say

Arizona doesn't need federal approval to eliminate 250,000 people from its Medicaid rolls in order to continue to receive federal matching dollars, health officials said Tuesday.

Lawmakers had sought to eliminate coverage for low-income Arizonans to help close a huge budget shortfall, but recently passed federal health reform mandates that states maintain their level of coverage.

In a letter to Brewer today, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the state's entire program comes up for federal reauthorization Sept. 30, and Arizona could simply choose to stop covering the childless adults who Gov. Jan Brewer and legislative Republicans are seeking to drop from the rolls.



more at link:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/02/16/20110216arizona-health-care-cuts.html

Wtf? Welcome to Amerika, the newest third world country.:mad: :mad: :mad:

are probably orgasmic over this news.

But go ahead and bash Brewer - she deserves it and worse.

It is going to be that and worse here in Kansas. It is stunning how quickly we are going down and we were pretty bad to begin with.

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look for it to be coming to a state near you. Soon.

politicians healthcare out of MY taxes, even after they retire.

Livid isn't even a strong enough word to describe my feelings right now.

More than fifty percent of the poor do not vote...They feel and probably rightly so that their vote really does not matter. Politicians follow the money, plain and simple..

Which is just about every single one of them...If the poor thought anything they did mattered they may just be more civic minded..

If the feds say no, the state could opt out of Medicaid and make up for the difference by covering even less people.

I say let the teabaggers run a couple of states into the ground...

Then and MAYBE then if they do a good enough job of it maybe some of the teabaggers will open their eyes.



Just now teabaggers at my work are starting to rethink the whole "energy deregulation" here in Texas.