LePage: Decertification of state psych hospital was retaliation by Obama

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage made an explosive but unsupported suggestion on Tuesday that federal decertification of the state-run Riverview Psychiatric Center was “political retaliation” by former President Barack Obama’s administration.

But Daniel Wathen, a former Maine Supreme Judicial Court chief justice who serves as Riverview’s court-mandated watchdog called the Obama administration’s 2013 move “justified.”

The Republican governor made the claim in an interview with WVOM, saying decertification was because of the administration’s rejection of Medicaid expansion, a pillar of the Affordable Care Act ushered in by the former Democratic president that has been vetoed six times by LePage.

LePage has a friendlier president in Republican Donald Trump, and he said the subject of Riverview came up in a meeting last week between him, Maine Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

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Read more: http://bangordailynews.com/2017/03/14/politics/lepage-decertification-of-state-psych-hospital-was-retaliation-by-obama/

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Obama to LePew - "kiss my butt"

[ck4829]

1. Fun Fact: LePage was originally OK with the decertification

“Frankly, I think we ought to just go it alone and not take federal money,” he told reporters while visiting a homeless shelter in Lewiston. “With the federal money, some of the fine print is so atrocious that sometimes we do more harm than good.”

https://bangordailynews.com/2014/07/30/health/despite-comments-by-lepage-dhhs-continues-with-attempt-at-federal-certification-at-riverview/

I guess when it became a chance to make the black man look bad, that's when LePage decided to change course.

[NastyRiffraff]

2. Is that idiot still there?

I thought the good people of Maine would have gotten rid of him by now.

[Paladin]

3. As if LePage has standing to discuss psychiatric matters of any sort.

Asylum, meet new inmate.....

[bucolic_frolic]

4. OH! Of Course!!

This is a real slapping-forehead-with-heel-of-hand moment. NOW I get it.

Blaming Obama is the new game in Washington. Trump himself teed it off
with blaming Obama for wiretapping. Now all the GOP pile on endlessly
over several years with their pet peeves. I think it a version of "Al Gore
Invented the Internet!"

[Vinca]

5. I assume Lepage is speaking from an inpatient ward at another psychiatric facility.

[FSogol]

7. +1, where else would he be?

[BREMPRO]

6. this is just mini leTrump piling on his idol's charge Obama wiretapped him

the alternative RW universe BS is getting more out of touch with reality everyday as they try to cover their lies and governing mistakes- in leTrump's case here, refusing medicare expansion. Obama is just a convenient scapegoat and distraction that plays to their ignorant audience. These guys are both ignorant incompetent heartless bullies working for the 1%ers pretending to be for the common man. pure BS.

[Botany]

8. So President Obama was thinking about the Riverview Psychiatric Center in Maine .....

.... when he was in office?

I wonder if he is in LePage's microwave right now?

[Aristus]

9. Yep! Obama did it! You know what else he did?

Well, you know those little tags on mattresses that say Do Not Remove Under Penalty Of Law?...