[www.nytimes.com]

Now Maine wants to drop more people from medicaid. The SCOTUS's ruling seems correct to me. The Federal govt has been a thug, forcing unfunded mandates to everyone. Now that SCOTUS's ruling has set a basis for this, some States will try to remove people from medicaid.

What this all means is more court wranglings and political maneuvering. It's going to be an interesting year. The thing is that I think this will extend beyond 2012 and into 2013, as States are trying to close budgets (and score political points).

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Nassau County, NY

There you again. A doctor offering opinions on patient care. I am going to wait for the experts here to weigh in.

Maine, as currently administered, is not a bellwether state .

It has a Tea Party wing nut governor who will never ever survive a reelection bid. The real Maine will start to emerge when former governor Angus King takes a seat in the US Senate as an independent next session. It will regain it's senses even more during the next gubernatorial election.

Legal wrangling between the states and the federal government, and between executives of different parties? Who could have anticipated that !

LePage is a tea party freak show and never ending source of embarrassing policies and quotes:

"Gov. Paul LePage on Wednesday told a crowd of 100 people that a Forbes representative told his office the state must cut spending, reduce energy costs and address structural problems — which LePage interpreted as “welfare” — or the state would continue to be “in the cellar” of the magazine’s rankings of the best states for business.

Forbes says it told the governor’s office no such thing.

“I certainly didn’t say anything about welfare costs, which has nothing to do with the ranking that we do,” said Forbes senior editor Kurt Badenhausen, who spoke to the governor’s office when it called the magazine. “I didn’t tell them they needed to reduce energy costs. I told them, basically, the best thing they could do, and that any local government could do, was just to try and create more jobs.”

A memo sent last week to LePage from his senior economic policy adviser backs up Badenhausen’s version."
[bangordailynews.com]


This is the same guy who outraged Jewish citizens in his state by calling the IRS the "gestapo," had a famous mural depicting workers removed from the state's dept. of labor because it depicted (OMG!) people working, and spent taxpayer dollars defending the removal of said mural, which he did to poke unions in the eye, and he also told the NAACP to "kiss his butt" when they noticed that he refused to participate in the state's annual MLK holiday observances.

Great guy, yeah he's your go to man for health care policy.

Let's have a glance at Massachusetts and Vermont, shall we?

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August West
Legal wrangling between the states and the federal government, and between executives of different parties? Who could have anticipated that !

Exactly.
This was going on long before the ACA passed.