Maine put health care up for a vote, and health care won, proving it is considered a RIGHT, NOT A COMMODITY.
"After Maine Voters Approve Medicaid Expansion, Governor Raises Objections"
NPR 8 Nov 2017
"Just hours after Maine voters became the first in the nation to use the ballot box to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, Republican Gov. Paul LePage said he wouldn't implement it unless the Legislature funds the state's share of an expansion.
"Give me the money and I will enforce the referendum," LePage said. Unless the Legislature fully funds the expansion — without raising taxes or using the state's rainy day fund — he said he will not implement it.
LePage has long been a staunch opponent of Medicaid expansion. The Maine Legislature has passed bills to expand the insurance program five times since 2013, but the governor has vetoed each one."
Can the Governor of Maine do this?
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voter approval may not be enough. Though a legislative budget analysis office estimates Medicaid expansion would bring about $500 million in federal funding to Maine each year, it would also cost the state about $50 million a year.The fate of the Medicaid expansion will now be in the hands of the Legislature, where lawmakers can change it like any other bill. Four ballot initiatives passed by Maine voters last year have been delayed, altered or overturned.
But state Democratic leaders pledge to implement the measure. "Any attempts to illegally delay or subvert the law ... will be fought with every recourse at our disposal," Speaker of the House Sara Gideon said. "Mainers demanded affordable access to health care yesterday, and that is exactly what we intend to deliver.""
Work to do!
Trump's health care is explained at Trumpcare.com. I want to believe what I read t the extent it offers real health care solutions. It is clear Maine's message is Americans want health care to be comprehensive, affordable, and NON-POLITICAL.
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2018 Health Insurance Open Enrollment Period Starts Now
Since President Trump took office in January, Republicans have tried several times to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare). The ACA remains the law of the land, however, after the last effort failed earlier this fall to garner any traction among rightwing lawmakers. Because the ACA is still law, open enrollment 2018 is still set to begin and end as per the Trump administration’s newer and shorter timeframe. This year, you’ll have from November 1 through December 15 to sign up for health insurance in the private market, which includes any non-government and non-job based health insurance option."
BUT, Tweety is sabotaging access to the Affordable Care Act three ways:
#1 Tweety ordered a cut to the ACA advertising 90% so the people might think it is gone, or will disappear when they need it;
#2 Tweety eliminate all insurance company subsidies so insurance rates might go up if Congress does not take action to fund the subsidies Tweety cut, and
#3 Tweety ordered a shorter enrollment period for the 2018 Health Insurance Open Enrollment Period.
Tweety is trying to convince America the ACA is not longer the law, that the ACA is dead, and that it is a total failure. Congress did not repeal it, so Tweety is virtually "repealing the ACA.
IT IS NOT TRUE that the ACA is failing, and that it is too expensive. The ACA is actually cheaper in 2018 if the subsidies are funded.
. Tweety is lying to Americans in order to kill the health care plan he calls "Obama Care."
