Seems like in Virginny (across ta river from me) dere's a chancit that the state guvmint could git shetdown becausin the Ree-Pawb-Lickins doesn't want to give po people Medicaid.
Seriously.
I.e., the GOP won't support an expansion of Medicaid because they aren't sure who's going to pay for it three years from now.
Seriously.
VA assembly, convening Wednesday [the day just past], unlikely to solve Medicaid, budget issues
Quotes from the above:
Unless the chambers decide to suspend their rules and take up matters not on their agendas, they will finish the day as they started — with no plan to fund schools, colleges, local governments and all manner of state services for the next two years.
and
Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) and a narrow majority in the evenly divided Senate say expanding Medicaid would help 400,000 uninsured Virginians and help the state’s economy. The GOP-dominated House says that Washington cannot afford to keep its promise to pay most of the cost, estimated at $2 billion a year.
and
A.E. Dick Howard, a constitutional law expert at the University of Virginia, said there would have to be a way to keep essential functions of government operating. He noted that the constitution vests the chief executive with certain powers that “at least raise the question of whether the governor has some inherent power to save the commonwealth from destruction.”
Time marches on. In the case of the GOP, it seems it runs backward.
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