Kudos to Kansas

[dellinger63]

Love the Gov. saying if someone offered you a free baby elephant along with a few months of food, would you take it?

WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (Reuters) — Kansas became on Tuesday the second U.S. state to return a large federal grant meant to help it create a prototype health insurance exchange as part of the Obama administration’s healthcare overhaul.

Republican Governor Sam Brownback said the state would give back the $31.5 million it received from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to become an early leader, along with six other states, in establishing health insurance exchanges that other local government could use as a model.

Kansas’s move brings the total amount of the returned exchange-related federal grants to almost $90 million as Republican governors seek to block implementation of the healthcare law supported largely by Democratic lawmakers.

“Every state should be preparing for fewer federal resources, not more,” Governor Brownback said in a statement. “To deal with that reality, Kansas needs to maintain maximum flexibility. That requires freeing Kansas from the strings attached to the Early Innovator Grant

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If they would read the law, Kansas would see that now the Federal Government will come in and create the exchange for them.

So Kansas gets the exchange - they have just relinquished any control whatsoever over it.

I cannot believe how utterly stupid some of these elected people are.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

If they would read the law, Kansas would see that now the Federal Government will come in and create the exchange for them.

So Kansas gets the exchange - they have just relinquished any control whatsoever over it.

I cannot believe how utterly stupid some of these elected people are.

If you offered your junk car to me to drive, I wouldn't simply because I wouldn't want to be responsible for it breaking down. Get it now?

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

If you offered your junk car to me to drive, I wouldn't simply because I wouldn't want to be responsible for it breaking down. Get it now?

Rather than tailoring the exchanges - required by law - to be exactly what they want, Governor Brownback, in the desire to "maintain maximum flexibility", now will get those exchanges, however he has given up 100% of "flexibility" about how they will be constructed, and the federal government will come in and tell them what they will have, and how it will work.

Big, old idiot line in Kansas. What completely silly fools.

Too much abortion and hate and textbooks teaching creation science have gone to their heads in the legislature. They have lost any contact with reality.

It's a shame, I know two university professors in Kansas, and there are some smart, innovative people there. They stay there, but they really don't know why, the state is so stupid. But it's pretty and rural. Nice hound hunting in the western half, very pretty. I love driving through Kansas. Mostly because it gets you to Colorado.

[dellinger63]

if Obamacare is going to save money why so much money needed up front and amazing the party of free choice is not allowing choice in this mess?

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

if Obamacare is going to save money why so much money needed up front and amazing the party of free choice is not allowing choice in this mess?

Guess didn't read your own post. About Kansas having "choice" in how they want the exchanges set up, and Gov. Brownback giving that up because he's stupid.

And you think it shouldn't cost anything to set up the exchanges? Seriously? People should work for free on the planning and implementation? That's absurd.

Here, Dell: for two years you have been saying false things about "Obamacare", relaying nonsensical right-wing talking points that would be opinion, except most have no basis in fact. You have to have the facts before you form opinions about something.

You seem to refuse to learn any facts about it at all. But here, just in case someday I hope you will give it a try:

Understanding the Affordable Care Act
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/introduction/index.html

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient...dable_Care_Act