Nelson to Fight for All States.

[elleng]

Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, has been under fire in recent days for winning some plum provisions for his home state in exchange for voting for his party’s big health care legislation. But in a statement on Thursday, Mr. Nelson said he would fight for all states to get the same benefits as Nebraska — a move that some Senate colleagues had predicted as inevitable.

When Mr. Nelson was negotiating with the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, over whether he would support the health care bill, he demanded that the federal government pick up the total cost of a proposed Medicaid expansion in Nebraska, even though other states would eventually have to share the cost of expanding their Medicaid programs.

Mr. Reid agreed and inserted a provision for the federal government to pay Nebraska’s new Medicaid costs indefinitely. But that provision has had its own political cost, with Republicans accusing Democrats of bribing Mr. Nelson with a “sweetheart deal” to win his vote.

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/nelson-to-fight-for-all-states/?hp

[joeybee12]

1. So, the federal government will cover the costs, and where does the federal

government get the money to pay for this...take a look in the mirror folks.

[notesdev]

2. So, Senator

When did you decide I wasn't a second-class citizen because I don't live in Nebraska? Before or after you foisted this corporate fascism on us?

[pnwmom]

3. What's wrong with federal support for Medicaid for all states? n/t

[OHdem10]

4. What is he going to cut out of the Plan to pay for all these states

being exempted?????

Obama makes them use paygo . If you spend money for every state
then what will you cut out of the plan to keep if financially
balanced???

Is Nelson just posturing???

[Demeter]

5. My god! That Sounds Like.....

Universal single payer!