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Thursday, March 25. 2010

Medicaid KoolAid

About half of those touted by the Democrats to gain more medical care coverage will be in Medicaid.


In California, per the Los Angeles Times, that's estimated to add $3-billion to its budget spending, already $20-billion in deficit.  Former Governor Moonbeam, now Attorney General, Jerry Brown, now running for an encore as governor, has not joined other states' attorney generals in challenging ObamaCare.


In South Carolina, it is estimated to add 10% to its budget spending, reports its capital's newspaper The State.


In my small California town, the PTA is urgently asking parents to kick in an extra $25-thousand to support non-core but valuable instruction slated for state funded cuts.  No mention of cutting teachers' rich benefits, or the staff protected by unions from being cut by being slotted into useless holding posts.  I wonder how long it'll be before my neighborhood's very involved Moms and Pops, and those elsewhere, will connect the dots.

Posted by Bruce Kesler in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays at 14:27 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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And, so it begins, or has this been going on for some time now?
School nurse arranges for a 15 year old to have an abortion, puts the girl in the tax, and no one ever tells the parents. You should not be surprised to find that Ballard is the city of high middle income types, where most of Univesity of Washington's younger professors live.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/88971742.html

Let's hear it from the Seattle stalkers on this site
#1 another one on 2010-03-25 14:46 (Reply)
One of the main reasons for this "healthcare" bill was to shore up Medicaid, which was on the verge of bankruptcy and needed more revenue streams. That was the point (along with of course, more control over the populace).
#2 BlackOrchid on 2010-03-25 15:49 (Reply)
This just puts an additional burden on the states, which we'll wind up paying for with higher sales and property taxes.
#3 Santay on 2010-03-25 16:02 (Reply)
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I wonder how long it'll be before my neighborhood's very involved Moms and Pops, and those elsewhere, will connect the dots.
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Write a letter, send it out.

Stand there in the afternoon and give it out - then come back a few days later to answer questions.

Get it published in the local paper.

That is the exactly the kind of local-level ahimsa that will convince the politically aimless/shell-shocked and keep up the pressure.

You'd be amazed how many people have a vague malaise, but need the dots connected for them.

You'd also be amazed how many conservatives react to that with wonky policy minutiae instead of SEE THOSE DEADBEAT UNION MEMBERS=THIS IS HOW YOUR KIDS ARE AFFECTED.

Connect those dots. With a broad magic marker.
#4 Ben-David on 2010-03-25 16:05 (Reply)
There are more of us than there are of them.
#5 Steve C. on 2010-03-25 16:43 (Reply)

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