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Related: About this forumIdaho voters passed Medicaid expansion. Republican lawmakers are pushing back
Source: CNN
By Tami Luhby, CNN
Updated 1321 GMT (2121 HKT) March 8, 2019
(CNN) Idaho voters approved Medicaid expansion in the fall, but Republican state lawmakers are now trying to add several restrictions to it.
The move follows similar action in Utah last month, where GOP lawmakers approved legislation limiting the scope of a measure also passed in November's midterms. Voters in a total of four states have turned to the ballot box to get around Republican lawmakers who've refused to adopt the Obamacare provision expanding Medicaid.
Idaho's legislature is considering a bill that would mandate certain newly eligible enrollees to work 120 hours a month to maintain their benefits, far higher than most state work requirement proposals.
The bill would also direct the state health department to ask participants about drug use so they can be referred to treatment. And it seeks to allow those just above the poverty line to get federal subsidies to purchase private coverage on the Obamacare exchange.
Under the bill, the Medicaid expansion would be eliminated entirely if federal reimbursement ever falls below 90% of the program cost.
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Chin music
(23,002 posts)What's more UN-American than overturning a vote by the people on something like Medicaid or whatever? they did the same thing in Wisc and MI. and NC on things and people the voters voted on. Whats the point of ballot initiatives if the states are going to re-write the wording of the initiatives or whatever? My land. How the hell is that even ok? Seems the congress should enact a law toot sweet that initiatives in states elections cant be overturned. they are BY NATURE controversial. Usually close votes, then the gop just acts like, hey, "we know best in the final event. The vote thing was cute, but, WE control this country, not yous."
Ohiogal
(31,979 posts)Great post, and I agree 100%.
How do these bastards keep getting away with this?
And why do those morons keep electing them?
Chin music
(23,002 posts)in plain sight. As if that sanitizes their act or something. What's the point of two parties, majorities, mandates etc, if the gop is just going to run the country. The Supreme Court was the height of this and it's not ok. It's not playing by rules we all agreed to.
Maru Kitteh
(28,339 posts)Idaho.