This could be a real opportunity for the Virginia Governor to lead Virginia's 7th out of an extremist tilt to assist the state to move the ball further down field in Washington, DC.
...A candidate running for the Democratic nomination in Virginia’s Eighth Congressional (click here) District, which includes the suburbs outside Washington, Mr. Beyer said in a radio ad that the president was “absolutely right” about health care, and that is just the start.
“In Congress, I’ll fight all efforts to repeal Obamacare, because making sure millions of Americans get affordable health care is the right thing to do,” he continued.
And his television ads check through a host of progressive positions — reproductive rights, equal pay, “common sense” gun laws and a carbon tax....
The Supreme Court didn't like the idea states had to participate in the Affordable Care Act's medicaid expansion. That expansion can be legislated differently to bring Medicaid to more people in the country, but, it would take a majority in the US House to do it.
The court stated medicaid could not be denied if a state didn't participate. States outside the Affordable Care Act still receive Medicaid monies. They simply don't receive the expanded version for two years prescribed by the ACA.
The most obvious legislation is to bring 'free' Medicaid to each state for two years with the option to 'try and buy.' If the additional expansion of Medicaid proves an enhancement to the state's economy and increases the health of the people, the state can continue to receive the expanded Medicaid in the future with somewhat higher federal participation. Certainly, if nothing else, the monies left over from the refusal to expand Medicaid by some states can be used to pay for an additional percentage of participating states in their third and fourth years post ACA. It will require a Democratic majority in the US House to do that.
The reason to relegislate the expansion is the obvious need of those left to flounder in the real world without it. In Florida, there was a case of a hard working mother of three children that left a spouse behind as well when the lack of health care caused her death. There is every reason to readdress the Medicaid expansion.
Charlene Dill would be alive today if her family received the Medicaid available in the ACA expansion. Her three children would still have a mother and her spouse would have a co-bread winner to the household.
...A candidate running for the Democratic nomination in Virginia’s Eighth Congressional (click here) District, which includes the suburbs outside Washington, Mr. Beyer said in a radio ad that the president was “absolutely right” about health care, and that is just the start.
“In Congress, I’ll fight all efforts to repeal Obamacare, because making sure millions of Americans get affordable health care is the right thing to do,” he continued.
And his television ads check through a host of progressive positions — reproductive rights, equal pay, “common sense” gun laws and a carbon tax....
The Supreme Court didn't like the idea states had to participate in the Affordable Care Act's medicaid expansion. That expansion can be legislated differently to bring Medicaid to more people in the country, but, it would take a majority in the US House to do it.
The court stated medicaid could not be denied if a state didn't participate. States outside the Affordable Care Act still receive Medicaid monies. They simply don't receive the expanded version for two years prescribed by the ACA.
The most obvious legislation is to bring 'free' Medicaid to each state for two years with the option to 'try and buy.' If the additional expansion of Medicaid proves an enhancement to the state's economy and increases the health of the people, the state can continue to receive the expanded Medicaid in the future with somewhat higher federal participation. Certainly, if nothing else, the monies left over from the refusal to expand Medicaid by some states can be used to pay for an additional percentage of participating states in their third and fourth years post ACA. It will require a Democratic majority in the US House to do that.
Charlene Dill would be alive today if her family received the Medicaid available in the ACA expansion. Her three children would still have a mother and her spouse would have a co-bread winner to the household.
