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By Christine Bauserman
From the AZ Republican Party Resolutions:
“Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
In case you missed it, the Arizona Executive and Legislative branches are embroiled in a battle over expanding Obamacare’s Medicaid program in Arizona. Here is the latest Friday poll gauging our reader’s position on this issue. Votes are scheduled in the Arizona House next week.
Survey reveals Arizona entrepreneurs’ deep skepticism of federal funding promises
PHOENIX, Ariz., May 14, 2013—In a poll released today by their leading association, small-business owners overwhelmingly oppose the high-stakes effort at the Arizona State Capitol to expand Medicaid coverage to all Arizonans at or below 133 percent of the federal poverty level as envisioned by the federal health-care law.
The recent survey conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB/Ari...
STATE CAPITOL – (May 14, 2013) Tomorrow afternoon, conservative national blogger, political commentator, director, screenwriter, editor and author, Bill Whittle, will address like-minded opponents of Medicaid expansion. Representative Warren Petersen (R-Dist. 12) will host the discussion on the Senate Lawn.
Survey reveals Arizona entrepreneurs’ deep skepticism of federal funding promises
PHOENIX, Ariz., May 14, 2013 — In a poll released today by their leading association, small-business owners overwhelmingly oppose the high-stakes effort at the Arizona State Capitol to expand Medicaid coverage to all Arizonans at or below 133 percent of the federal poverty level as envisioned by the federal healthcare law.
The recent survey conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB/Ariz...
To all Arizona taxpayers and health care consumers:
When it comes to the fiscal costs and human damage of expanding Medicaid/AHCCCS under ObamaCare, we know that things will turn out badly. How do we know? Because we’ve been there, and we’ve done that. Here is what past experience, here in Arizona and elsewhere, tells us about the proposed expansion:
1) The Medicaid expansion will cost much more than projected. 2) The expansion may do nothing to help low-income Arizonan...
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CALL TO ACTION !!
Thursday – Call the Governor’s office and shut down the switchboard.
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There is a ruse afoot. The highly paid political consultants are failing in their attempt to help Governor Brewer surrender Arizona to Obama, so a deceitful plan is being ...
Jan Brewer is not the only Republican governor stuck in a struggle with state legislators over expansion of Medicaid.
Governors in Florida, Ohio, and Michigan are battling with legislators after they turned the tables on conservatives and decided to accept federal funds for Medicaid expansion under Obamacare.
Medicaid is the bane of existence for governors and legislators alike that annually face lean budgets.
Funding for Medicaid can consume as much is 25 to 30 percent of a state’s budget. Th...
Here’s a brief update on the push to expand Medicaid in the Arizona Legislature.
Rumors are circulating that Senator John McComish is attempting to orchestrate a coup d’état on Senate President Andy Biggs as former Senate President Steve Pierce looks on with plausible deniability. Why a coup? Because Senate President Andy Biggs is the one individual holding firm against a vote on Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion in the State Senate. Both McComish and Pierce are supporting Gover...
March 18, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The following statement was issued by the Arizona State Chapter of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons:
“Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer, like some other Republican governors who say they oppose ObamaCare, is pushing for implementation of a key feature of the Affordable Care Act: an expansion of Medicaid.
“The media campaign features the standard formula of presenting hard-luck stories. An upstanding, hard-working citizen has, throu...
The governor’s plan to add more than 300,000 Arizonans to the Medicaid rolls will do nothing more than facilitate and expand Obamacare. Voters clearly expressed their will to reject implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) via Proposition 106 in 2010.
If this expansion goes through, nearly one-fourth of all Arizonans will receive free taxpayer paid medical care. This isn’t a “safety net” for the poorest citizens. It is an incentive program for socialized medicine....
Republican state Rep. Ethan Orr and Democratic state Rep. Victoria Steele (both of Tucson’s District 9) stopped by AZ Illustrated Politics to bring viewers up to speed on the legislative session. Arizona Capitol Times reporter Hank Stephenson joined the panel to discuss Gov. Jan Brewer’s proposal to expand Medicaid to 133 percent of the federal poverty level, as well as the latest on the st...
The strongest advocate for expanding Medicaid—and the likely source of funding for the massive advertising campaign—is the hospital lobby.
We hear that hospitals are going broke. They can’t make ends meet. The uninsured are breaking the hospitals’ backs from emergency room over-utilization. Hospitals won’t survive unless Medicaid is expanded. (This is the most interesting claim, as hospitals simultaneously complain that underpayment by Medicaid justifies their cost-shifting to others!)...
Arizona Republicans are opposed to expanding medicaid. The poll clearly reveals that Republicans are not only opposed, but also that Republicans in support of expansion are in jeopardy come election time.
Governor Brewer is in full campaign mode, criss-crossing the state attempting to convince Republicans that implementing Obamacare is the “will” of the voters. It is not.
“[a]mong Republican primary voters in the six legislative districts a majority, or 53% are less likely to r...
The public relations campaign to support Medicaid expansion frequently uses testimony by patients with serious medical conditions who have lost their private insurance. It is assumed that once they qualify for Medicaid, they will easily get their chemotherapy, hepatitis c treatment, or defibrillator battery replacement.
“The messages talk only about coverage, not care,” states Jane Orient, M.D., executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Sur...
The strongest advocate for expanding Medicaid—and the likely source of funding for the massive advertising campaign—is the hospital lobby.
We hear that hospitals are going broke. They can’t make ends meet. The uninsured are breaking the hospitals’ backs from emergency room over-utilization. Hospitals won’t survive unless Medicaid is expanded. (This is the most interesting claim, as hospitals simultaneously complain that underpayment by...
