Sens Kathy Campbell and Bob Krist Republicans? Republican controlled house? Please. Anyone who has followed the legislation and votes of same would know they are Republicans in name only and for the support GOP gives. Republicans do not control the Unicameral because they allowed most of the Chairman seats of Committees to go unopposed. Tell me again who controls the Unicameral?….The Democrats….year after year after year. One would think the Republicans would organize and strategize. Nay, not so.

If anything, Medicaid needs to be scaled back. Make those who intentionally choose to sit on their duff and not work get off if it and join the workforce.

Kevin, the idea that medicaid is health care for the lazy is factually inaccurate. This isn’t an opinion, it’s the statistical reality. Many on medicaid have jobs, but live in poverty because they aren’t paid enough to escape poverty. The notion that the working poor (some of whom have two jobs) and the disabled are lazy is silly. Are you a silly person?

The federal government is giving Nebraska the opportunity to keep more of its citizens taxes, in the form of medicaid funding. If we deny that, we still pay the taxes – only we’re funding other states’ medicaid expansions, including states with Republican governors who can do math. Refusing the medicaid money offered to us is a reckless blow against fiscal responsibility in our state government.

More sucking from the government tit.

And I’m pointing out that there are, in reality, very few adult Nebraskans who are unemployed by choice, and the myth that this presents a significant portion of people on medicaid is factually, provably, statistically false.

I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but the federal government is offering to give back some of our tax revenue in the form of medicaid funding. If we don’t take the funding, we STILL pay for the program, only we pay for other states without getting the benefits. Other GOP governors who fought Obamacare are still taking medicaid dollars – our medicaid dollars – because it’s the fiscally responsible thing to do. Even Tea Party darling Jan Brewer agrees that getting to keep your tax dollars for your own citizens is too good an opportunity to pass up. Donating our tax dollars for other states to fund their medicare, while refusing the funding ourselves, isn’t conservative. It’s just reckless and dumb.

well stated

Susan, I am a Republican, a REAL Republican. You, on the other hand, are just a Neo-Fascist who, like all the other so-called Modern Republicans that have crawled out from under a rock the past thirty years, has stolen the Republican label and perverted it in an effort to hide the truly repulsive, anti-democratic, racist, elitist, hateful creatures that you really are. Good health is a right, NOT a privilege. Having a healthy, able to work, work force is an economic advantage, and saves businesses LOTS of money in the long run in NOT having lost days of productivity due to either worker illness or illness of the worker’s children that force the worker to stay home. People who have the mental capability to see the Big Picture realize that. All the others only have the ability to see the underside of the rock they crawled out from under.

When did you stop taking your meds, and do the people at the institution know you’re able to access a computer?

Once again, the Koch sucker ideological moron, Herr Fuhrer for a Decade HeineyMan, is throwing another temper tantrum because his troops won’t goose step in perfect unison at his immoral commands. This latest puff-chested tirade coming from the King of Hypocrites HeineyMan, who CONVENIENTLY neglects to let his Party Puppets remember that he, like most of the career Republican Politicians, have been on Publicly supported Health Care for most of their adult lives.

In HeineyMan’s case, from the age of eighteen when he entered the USMA until he separated from service, Herr Fuhrer HeineyMan had totally free, no out of pocket costs, Government (tax payer) provided Universal Single Payer Health Care. Since entering Political Office nearly two decades ago, he has gorged at the trough of a Government Health Care Plan subsidized by the tax payers, and any out of pocket costs paid for by his tax payer funded salary. Like his Tea Party Hypocrite brethren, he can’t see his own hypocrisy because of his severe case of crainio-rectal disease that is so contagious among the Tea Party/Neo-Fascist crowd.

Wanking_From_Lincongrad may be a “registered” Republican but he’s no fiscal conservative given his neo-socialist big government nanny state comments. Demonizing people who disagree with him is straight out of the “Rules for Radicals” that is his public policy bible. Here’s a couple of questions for you “Wanker”: (1) Why does the US see a huge number of “health care tourists” each year escaping from your beloved Universal Health Care dictatorships elsewhere to seek and pay for care here?; and (2) Where does the provision of health care services by privately funded charitable groups fit into your twisted view of “good health is a right” instead of using the police power of the state to seize the fruits of others labor to pay for someone else’s “good health”? When the “fruits” producers decide they aren’t going to play anymore, then what are you proposing to do???