Bachmann chides Dayton over Medicaid expansion

Wouldn’t it be interesting if Ms. B would actually face and discuss her positions with people who are NOT her zombie followers? It was a total shock when Gov. Dayton did this and oh-so-refreshing. I had almost forgotten it was a possibility.

Ms. B, do you have the guts to do this???????

What I’d like to know is what is Bachmann’s solution for the impoverished who cannot afford health insurance? Liberals have already proposed their solution of shifting the states poor onto medicaid from GAMC, understandably republicans don’t like it, but what is their solution to the poor who cannot afford healthcare or healthcare insurance?

This maybe cynical but it seems like their solution is if you’re poor and don’t have health insurance and you get sick, you just die.

Let each state deal with its own poor. That way they can be as generous or not as the local taxpayers see fit. And if the poor find the support inadequate in say, Minnesota, then they can travel to a more generous state. You know, the way the poor in Illinois travel to MN now.

Putting the cost of medical insurance on the back of the federal government makes for a one-size fits all system that may be inadequate or overly generous depending upon where the poor person lives.

Maybe she should tell us what John Quincy Adams would think about it. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/bachmann-america-was-founded-on-diversity-video.php

Dorothy Zbornak would correct Dennis’ writing as thus:

Let each state deal with its own poor. That way they can be as caring or not as the local taxpayers see fit …

Dennis,
So should we start kicking out those who can’t pay from nursing homes, denying life-saving prescriptions? Or should we be like Arizona and let those “poor” people who need transplants die?

Health care has always been rationed in this country with the rich always getting care and the poor stuck with nothing. Coverage for all reduces costs for all of us, as well as giving people an option to live.

Dennis,

Going out on a limb here…..I don’t really think Gov. Dayton really cares what Crazy Pants Bachmann really thinks….come to think of it, nobody really cares except extremely obese 50 year old virigins living in their parents basement…whose parents recieve the very same social entitlements (that means social security and medicaid Dennis) she wants to take away…oh my, I think I just described Dennis.

“We are at a collision course with reality right now; . . . ”

What does Bachmann know about reality? The reality is that 50%+ of the adults in this country have “preexisting conditions” which will disqualify them from insurance coverage. If government imposes a regulation that prevents insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, premiums will rise unless all people, including healthy people, are forced to subscribe.

Her comment that:
‘Obamacare’ is already raising insurance premiums and will rob people of our state to the choice to buy the health insurance that’s right for them.”

Is just another Bachmann lie that omits the part of not being able to buy insurance at all, even if you can afford it, if you have a pre-existing condition.
I’d like her to prove that statement. Maybe she should have paid attention when the discussions about Affordable Health Care were going on rather than running around spreading disinformation about the bill. She might have learned that if all people are not included in the

Most noteworthy is the braindead governor’s verbal vomit.  How about, if you can’t afford to pay for healthcare you can’t have it.  Unless of course some trust fund brat will pony up his own cash to pay for it.

There’s nothing like Gov. Dayton to telling this narcisistic non-rep. from Minnesota to “stick it where the sun don’t shine.”

Michele Bachmann has some nerve with the B.S. she dishes out. She has been sucking the Government tit for over 20 years now in some way or another be it Farm Subsidies, Foster care subsudies, subsidies for her husband’s Faith Based Clininc , Health Care and perks for 12+ years as a DO-NOTHING politician.

Michele Bachmann makes things sounds like she is the one hurting!

CCO did a “Reality Check” on all of Bachmanns claims yesterday and it pretty much DEBUNKED EVERYTHING that this little T- bagging Pop Tart said.. It’s hard to believe that Michele “The Iowan” all of the sudden cares about Minnesota Politics.. Go Back to Iowa Michelle. The Children of the Corn need a leader..

Bachman is a nitwit, plain and simple. However, she is a dangerous one, her simplistic sound-bite solutions, and, her falsehoods are accepted as fact by way too many folks. Every demagougue, from the Joe McCarthy wing of US politics, has used the same tactics, we can only hope that she will self-destruct soon. It seems that eventually they all do, but, it is hard waiting. I suspect she will abuse the gag-rule on the members of the House Intel committee, and, then the Republican leadership will find some way to marginalize her. Maybe the best tactic would be for her critics to stop their attacks and ignore her, she only seems to feed on all the attention she gets.

“We are at a collision course with reality right now; . . . ”

That is pretty funny coming from a person who has been caught lying over and over and over and over…….

Honestly I can’t believe the response of so many people in the State. Since when has anyone been denied health CARE in this state or country – NEVER! The tax payers pay for it which is fine and the way it should be if people can’t afford it. Newsflash – this Medicaid expansion may look like a compassionate move but down the road when the federal funds dry up is it compassionate for the taxpayers of MN to be saddled with millions (billions?) to pay for it? What other worthy programs will then have to be cut to pay for it? Oh wait – this is MN – bleed the taxpayers dry and at the same time move busnesses, jobs and job creators out of the state. Ah yes – that sounds like a typical Dem plan. Short sighted as always but try to look (and really aren’t) oh so compassionate.

With non-profit businesses like UCare in existence, not to mention BC/BS of MN’s Go Blue plan, I fail to see how all 95,000 of those people cannot, in any possible way, afford health care coverage. Ditto on what Sandy W posted…

Sandy,

You should check your facts, many people die every year from lack of access to proper medical care.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/News/arizona-transplant-deaths/story?id=12559369

With non-profit businesses like UCare in existence, not to mention BC/BS of MN’s Go Blue plan, I fail to see how all 95,000 of those people cannot, in any possible way, afford health care coverage.
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Check KSTP news for “Advancing Minnesota’s Health Care”

“Among the changes the HMOs are considering as budget saving proposals for the legislature are: cuts in certain services to the developmentally disabled and the elderly.

if you can’t afford to pay for healthcare you can’t have it.
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I hope you and everyone you care about can always afford it.

Healthcare is step one in the free-market utopia.
Other things you can’t have in the future if you can’t pay: water, education, protection from crime and fire, – everything.

So, taxpayer funded emergency care (which is astronomically expensive) is OK, but taxpayer funded preventative care is bad? Sandy completely contradicts herself in 1 sentence. Amazing.

“I hope you and everyone you care about can always afford it. ”

Back atcha.  The only hope for that is less demopigs in government.

JRR – Multiple personality disorder is expensive to treat. It may even be a pre-existing condition. Again, I wish you luck in finding insurance and receiving care.
Thanks to your kind personality for the good wishes.
Best of luck keeping that nasty one under control.

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