Discussion for article #228373
“For the sake of low-income families in my state, I will continue to work in good faith…”
Does. Not. Compute.
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Why does Pence ask President Obama for his precious time when he could
just send a policy paper to be reviewed. Anything Pence offers is just
another right wing nut piece, the President already knows, don’t waste his time.
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An open letter is a gimick, designed to make political points. The President does not review such proposals, nor does it evaluate them. He has an entire department at DHHS to do that.
The Governor knows that. He just wants it to look like he is doing something to expand coverage, when in fact he isn’t, and then he can complain when DHHS calls him on it.
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PR stunt. He could have mailed the request directly to the White House. Publishing it in a newspaper isn’t exactly following protocol.
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I bet if Mike had picked up the phone Obama would have been happy to meet with him, but nooooooo Mikey had to make it political stunt which means he is not serious.
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Let me help you out a bit with this one, OBama:
“No. You don’t get to have special treatment just because you’re stuck between trying to save yourself from the GOP/Teatroll base you deliberately helped to radicalize or trying to save yourself from the disaster of refusing to expand Medicaid. Make your own bed and then lie in it, fuckface. You had your opportunity ot play nice and squandered it.”
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I’d send Biden out to basically say, look, we’re not doctrinaire about how coverage is expanded as we’ve proven in (state, state, state…). But this is ultimately about expanding Medicaid coverage to those who earn up to 138% over the poverty line without cost - and any expansion has to meet those criteria. What the State of Indiana has proposed so far fails to do so, because of X, Y, Z. The Governor and his State health officials know this, and i suggest the press and the people of Indiana ask those officials why they are trying to push a sub–standard plan."
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How likely is he to jump the fence and sprint across the lawn?
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My response if I were Obama:
Fuck No.
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Oh, please. Pence has no intention of expanding Medicaid in Indiana. Pence wants to run for President in 2016 and nothing would serve his aspirations more than photos of him sticking it to the President, mano a mano.
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Lucky for us you aren’t Obama 
The term “POUND SAND” comes to mind as an appropriate response to Mr Pence.
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“It includes some provisions that the administration might not be willing to accept. Those would, for example, include allowing coverage to be revoked if an enrollee fails to make payments toward their health care.”
Right, let’s revoke health care coverage for poor people who miss their payment. Punish the Poor and Please the Rich!! .
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In an open letter to President Barack Obama, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence ®
said Thursday that he would like to meet personally with him to discuss
Pence’s proposal to expand Medicaid under Obamacare.
I would like to meet personally with him to discuss a number of things. How does one go about that? You just have to ask?
Now isn’t that a foul four. Missing Brownback, McCrory, Snyder, and Corbett for sure.
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Sound like a Heritage Foundation Plan gambit: make a big show of pretending to support this instead of that, to give yourself political cover while you work to kill that, with no intention of ever bring up this again once that is gone.
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Mike needs to be a bit less grasping and obvious if he wants the Oval…
If your plan is so fn good why are you interested in the socialist kenyan’s plan
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That, and make it look like Obama is coming to him. At his summons.