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Do you support the stance of Gov. Sam Brownback and Kansas Republicans to not enact 2010 federal health care overhaul initiatives?
| Response | Percent | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No | 66% | 616 | |
| Yes | 26% | 248 | |
| Not sure | 6% | 59 | |
| Total | 923 | ||
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Comments
autie 11 months ago
Uh...O my I dont think I will cut off my nose to spite my face. Jeebus Christos what do they think? WE need the same plan the Swedes or the French use.....it ain't rocket science but those insurance companies that pay for those elections won't make so much money.....but the people will be better off.......it it that complicated?
oldvet 10 months, 4 weeks ago
I like the plan the French have... If you're not a citizen, you don't get anything! No health care, no welfare, no public education, no retirement, nothing! A GREAT plan.
wounded_soldier 11 months ago
The GOP doesn't want any success given to Obama because he might get relected. Oh My!! Instead of coming up with their own plan, they put down the plan that was passed by both houses. Come up with something new before you knock down a plan that you say won't work.
oldexbeat 11 months ago
and a good example for the youth -- if you don't like a law, just don't follow it. That's what the Governor Sam Brownback says. Do it kids. Just do it.
oldvet 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Similar to the Omnipotent One deciding to ignore the immigration laws of the US...
Cant_have_it_both_ways 11 months ago
When the mandate is stuck down today, are you going to laud the savings?
deec 11 months ago
Oops Guess you were wrong. Now Kansas has no say in their plan.
KS 11 months ago
If they spent all that money to set it up and it gets struck down today, then it was a waste. It can still be set up if the law is upheld. Gezzzz! What a question.
CLARKKENT 11 months ago
NO, I JUST CAN NOT SUPPORT ANYTHING BROWNBACK IS FOR. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DEMOCRAT OR REPULICAN, HAS TO DO WITH BROWNBACK.
cait48 11 months ago
Hold on there, hoss. You sound like the Obama haters. I hate Brownback too. The man hasn't done a single thing I like to date but I'm not going to suspend my judgment for ideological belief. Even a blind hog can find the occasional acorn. Nor is Brownback the only lone wolf in this. The legislature is just as much at fault and, ultimately, the people who vote for them (and those who don't bother to vote). So, if you want to change things DO SOMETHING. Stump for a candidate you like, stuff envelopes, answer phones, get a clipboard and participate in voter registration drives. Change takes work. Roll up your sleeves.
Paul Decelles 11 months ago
Now remember...hate the stupidity, not the stupid. :-)
cait48 11 months ago
If this goes down to SCOTUS, there may be a silver lining. The vast majority of people in this country want single payer health care. Maybe next time they would do it right.
verity 11 months ago
Yes, we were betrayed by those who were supposed to be serving us. While there are many good things in this bill, it was also a gift to insurance companies.
cait48 11 months ago
I also personally think that Clarence Thomas should have recused himself from this. Not only did he fully admit that he didn't even READ the law (he said, "that's what law clerks are for"), his wife stands to make millions of dollars. If this law gets struck down, I think Clarence Thomas should be impeached. No Supreme Court justice has ever been impeached in the history of this country. It's about damned time we did.
vertigo 11 months ago
Here it is folks. The entire ACA is upheld, with the exception that the federal government's power to terminate states' Medicaid funds is narrowly read. The mandate is uphelp as a tax.
vertigo 11 months ago
Looks like Brownback and the conservative legislature rolled the dice and it came up snake eyes. Kansas taxpayers lose again.
chootspa 11 months ago
Brownback does something foolish and spiteful that costs the taxpayers bunches of money? Ya don't say!
cait48 10 months, 3 weeks ago
I know, chootspa. Who'da thunk it?
vertigo 11 months ago
On the Medicaid issue, a majority of the Court holds that the Medicaid expansion is constitutional but that it w/b unconstitutional for the federal government to withhold Medicaid funds for non-compliance with the expansion provisions.
The money quote from the section on the mandate: "Our precedent demonstrates that Congress had the power to impose the exaction in Section 5000A under the taxing power, and that Section 5000A need not be read to do more than impose a tax. This is sufficient to sustain it."
vertigo 11 months ago
In other words the government has the right to impose a tax if you don't carry insurance.
On Medicaid: the Constitution requires that states have a choice about whether to participate in the expansion of eligibility; if they decide not to, they can continue to receive funds for the rest of the program.
tomatogrower 11 months ago
Woo hoo!! Now all you deadbeats who expect us to foot your bills when you get sick and go to the emergency room for treatment will have to get insurance. Boo hoo. Although I wish we could still have a single payer plan, instead of making the stupid insurance companies richer.
verity 11 months ago
Onward to the next step:
Single Payer
verity 11 months ago
How much money did Brownback cost Kansas on this one?
Brownback gambled and lost.
Bushloather1 10 months, 4 weeks ago
$31 million for starters. AKA: "chump change" to the Koch brothers.
Cant_have_it_both_ways 11 months ago
All you that are against corporate welfare remember you position when they drop your quality plans you have now, pay the fine and kick you to the socialist system, and with out hesitation, keep the extra money. Go just about anywhere in Europe and look at the people.
deec 10 months, 4 weeks ago
You mean how they're not all grossly obese and have healthy skin color and muscle tone? Yeah, we can't have that here.
tbaker 10 months, 4 weeks ago
The SCOTUS ruling does permit states to opt-out of the huge MEDICARE expansion needed to implement ObamaCare. If a state decides not to pony-up it's share of the increase in MEDICARE, it doesn't have to. If so, ObamaCare simply won't happen in that state.....like Kansas. After all, our state joined the lawsuite against ObamaCare.
catiefan 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Um...I think you mean Medicaid expansion...
none2 10 months, 4 weeks ago
I really don't understand their logic to say the feds cannot threaten the states to cut funding if they don't implement something...
Wasn't it the case a few years ago that the fed government either said that the states had to raise the drinking age or the seat-belt law, otherwise they would cut the states share of Federal highway funding? How was that different?
camper 10 months, 4 weeks ago
From what I understand, it is too late for Kansas to participate in the insurance exchange. Kansas dragged its feet.
In other news, Kansas has accepted the bids of three companies to manage its Medicaid administration. This seems idealogically opposed to the Republican stance.....private companies in joint venture with a governmental entity. I guess there is an exception if it benefits corporations. I actually like this partnership.....just pointing out a bit of hypocrisy
AreUNorml 10 months, 4 weeks ago
what if we quit catering to insurance and pharmaceutical corporations, as well as Wall Street and focused more on advancing the quality of life for Americans. Medical treatment doesn't cost anywhere near what they're charging for it. Most of the cost is wrapped up in big shiny buildings, extravagant CEO bonuses and dividends to stock holders. How about we quit making our laws around benefiting these corporations under the guise of growing the economy. Good companies can grow around good government policy, but government policy should not be made to work around corporate necessity.
blindrabbit 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Sammie better get to work pronto on the Kansas Health Plan or those US Highway 59 completion funds from the Federales will dry up real fast, especially with this hot weather.
cabmando 10 months, 4 weeks ago
If you don't like something don't obey the law. It's simple it's called civil disobedience.. Only problem is the SUPREME COURT ruled on subject with all conservative members agreeing with law, get over it . Mitt this applies to you too.
JackMcKee 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Anyone else imagine the outrage from the rightwing nutsos in Kansas if a Democratic Governor had done the same when W was President? It would be outright civil war. Brownback is just simply an incompetent buffoon.
At this point I'd be OK with the Koch's taking their act somewhere else. Just get out of this state.
jayhawklawrence 10 months ago
(CNN) -- The world's super-rich had between $21 trillion and $32 trillion of wealth hidden in tax havens by the end of 2010, a new study says.
The size of these unreported financial assets is equivalent to, or even larger than, the combined GDPs of the United States and Japan, representing up to $280 billion in lost tax revenues.
Written by James Henry, former chief economist at McKinsey & Co., the study drew data from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations and central banks.
Romney is the best thing that ever happened for those who want to keep this greed festival going and Brownback is right there with them.
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