LePage vetoes Medicaid expansion funding 4 days before people can apply to enroll

[jpak]

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.

LePage’s 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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Trou de Cul

yup

[msongs]

1. maybe he can run away with susan collins and hide out in the deep dark woods nt

[PaulX2]

2. One Evil Pig

In Maine.

[elmac]

3. Well, he's a fascist pig and this is what fascist pigs do

if people don't like it vote him out or wait for the civil war.

[sakabatou]

4. Ugh

[George II]

5. What a sadistic fuck this guy is. No doubt he tortured kittens when he was a child.

[eShirl]

13. He was a homeless runaway.

He learned meanness, and grew up to be a Republican.

[PatrickforO]

6. Why is it that Republicans gleefully revel in any action that causes pain and

suffering among people?

[Recursion]

7. Nothing caps off a failed gubernatorial career like an override of your veto

Sad. Weak.

[still_one]

8. The immorality and cruelity of these pieces of garbage is unbelievable. They are the lowest form of

being

[MarcA]

9. His Gubernatorial benefits should be denied. n/t

[Jakes Progress]

10. Study how lepage got elected. Twice.

It was because the left and far left of Maine split the vote. Twice.

[Midnight Writer]

11. Bastard can't wait to start throwing people out of nursing homes.

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]

12. Any chance the state legislature can override his veto? nt

[Ohiogal]

14. Medicaid expansion is covered by the federal government 100% for the first two years

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]

15. He is such a !@@hole

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.