Kansas House fails in attempt to override Medicaid veto

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Lawmakers in Kansas on Monday failed to override Republican Governor Sam Brownback's veto of a bill expanding eligibility for Medicaid for the poor under the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA).

The Kansas House of Representatives voted 81 to 44 in favor of overriding the veto, falling three votes short of the 84 needed to advance the override.

State lawmakers in the Republican-controlled senate voted in favor of the measure last week, just days after President Donald Trump's efforts to repeal and replace the ACA, also known as Obamacare, ended with the bill being pulled from a vote.

The Republican-controlled House also voted in favor of the measure, but Brownback quickly vetoed the bill on Thursday. The House took up a debate on overriding the veto that day, but postponed a vote until Monday.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kansas-medicaid-idUSKBN175258

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POLITICS | Mon Apr 3, 2017 | 3:12pm EDT
By Timothy Mclaughlin

[TheDebbieDee]

1. Well, at least the legislature in Kansas attempted to get Medicare-for-all...

The Missouri legislature is chock too full of conservative nuts that it's not even being considered.

[greymattermom]

2. This is just medicaid expansion

Under Brownback, Kansas has the worst economy in the nation, and it's not going to get better. Just wait until Mexico boycotts Kansas beef and wheat.

[StevieM]

3. Agreed. Brownback has destroyed the state. And he still makes up phony reasons to claim that

his economic theories make perfect sense.

[cstanleytech]

8. Well I am sure they do in his addled mind but in the real world there is a thing called "greed" and

once the wealthy have a few nice mansions and have hired the number of people to cook and clean them that they need they are not going to be creating any more jobs and will tend to just hoard the money and watch it grow bigger and bigger and bigger.
So ya Brownbacks and the other Repugnants who believe the rich are the job creators are either delusional or just plain lying through their teeth if not both.

[Blue Idaho]

16. "Who you gonna believe"

"Me or your empty pocket book?"

Wake up sheeple...

[TheDebbieDee]

4. Medicaid expansion is just as good in that aither one is better than nothing...

[progree]

5. A family of 3 making $5900 makes too much to qualify for Medicaid in Kansas

-- that according to the latest issue of The Nation, though the $5900 is a 2010 figure. So maybe about $6500 or so now. Or about $2200 per household member.

Easily enough left over from all that to pay medical bills {sarcasm}

[hibbing]

13. Or to put in a HSA..yeah

[tblue37]

14. No--Medicare for all is NOT the same as Medicaid expansion for the ACA. nt

[Honeycombe8]

6. Well, Brownback has insurance. That's all that matters to him. nt

[PsychoBabble]

7. Leave it to Kansas to eff themselves in their own hiney ...

Kudos for the few Republicans their who finally got a glimmer of a clue regarding health care for their consitutients there.

For the love of God, WHO actively does things to take away care for people?

Brownback can join my pile of degenerates, along with Trump, McConnell, Ryan, and other facilitators, who can, and hopefully will, burn in Hell for eternity. I would pay money to get to see THEIR faces when they finally realize that God does NOT agree with them ...

[Scalded Nun]

9. Well, Kansas, you voted for this shit...more than once

Now you get to circle the bowl as your state continues its journey down the toilet.

[tblue37]

15. A Wichita State math professor has show serious statistical anomalies that suggest

election fraud on the part of the GOP in our 2012 elections, but the Brownback administration has denied her request for the raw vote data to check whether the votes were properly counted.

The statistical evidence strongly suggests that Kansas voters DIDN'T reelect Brownback in 2012.

[YOHABLO]

10. He's such a fucking asshole .. I hope a lightening bolt ... well you get it.

[Adrahil]

11. blood on their hands.... NT

[turbinetree]

12. Read how two of these people voted being reported in this paper

As you read this I ask for the human beings in Kansas to re-read this again, and then ask yourself did you or did you not "vote" for these individuals and then ask yourself "why".

And then ask yourself, how much do they get to be paid to deny human beings a right to have insurance


http://kcur.org/post/house-fails-override-brownback-veto-medicaid-expansion-bill#stream/0


"Rep. Clay Aurand, a Belleville Republican, said he supported a form of expansion but thought the existing bill wasn’t specific to Kansans’ needs and concerns.

In explaining his Monday vote against the override, Aurand said he hoped House leaders would form a group to design a new plan.

“I want to tighten this up,” he said.

Rep. Tory Marie Arnberger, a Great Bend Republican who also switched her vote to help defeat the override, said she was concerned about how to fund Medicaid expansion because the Legislature hasn’t come up with a budget plan. She said she would support a future attempt to expand Medicaid.

“This is not any anti-Medicaid expansion vote, I just don’t know how fiscally we’re going to do it,” she said."

Two Republican House members who opposed Medicaid expansion in February — Rep. Fred Patton of Topeka and Rep. Troy Waymaster of Bunker Hill — flipped their votes and voted for the override.


And in this cut and paste shows who is on the death panel besides your Governor Brownback


http://cjonline.com/news/state-government/local/2017-04-03/kansas-house-fails-override-brownback-veto-medicaid

[dmosh42]

17. Voting has consequences, so suck it up!