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Not the first time I’ve been grateful that we kicked Tom Fracking Corbett to the curb.
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“There is no reason to deal with it right now,” Steve Miskin, spokesman for the state’s House Republicans, told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
This is the kind of thinking America expects from Republican office holders! It’s the kind of thinking that made Iraq a beacon of freedom and stability for the whole Middle East, that honed FEMA into the efficient, effective instrument that we saw rushing into action after Katrina and the kind of thinking that has made Kansas a model for pro-business tax reform.
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Now that wasn’t so hard, was it?
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It’s also why this probably won’t fly; it’s reliant upon a GOP legislature to approve the deal. In an election year.
This is great haha…PA’s GOP/Teatrolls are now damned if they do, damned if they don’t lol. Check and mate.
“It’s also why this probably won’t fly; it’s reliant upon a GOP legislature to approve the deal. In an election year.”
Precisely. I’ll go out on a limb here and say that if the SCOTUS rules like the political hacks we think they are, then PA will have a Dem legislature after November 2016 because they now get to choose to either alienate their voters or motivate a bunch of people, who they screwed royally, to show up and vote.
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Democratic Governor: proposes a relatively easy fix - state takes over the exchange. Democratic President and Democrats in Congress: propose easy 3-word “… or federal government” fix to the ACA. Republicans: “Harumph, harumph, we don’t need to think about this now - besides, we have a secret plan to fix this small glitch by changing the entire healthcare system back to where it was before, if we can just work that out among ourselves, you see. But, we got this, don’t worry.”
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Hopefully the medical and health insurance sector puts some pressure on the legislators.
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Now if we can get Toomey to follow him into oblivion!
And the rest of the legislative and congressional regressives.
I live in Chester County, which is slowly evolving away from a Republican machine run place … but still had only write-ins for Township and some County offices on my D primary ballot last month. But we do have SS Andy Dinnamin.
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Any bets that someone in the assh*le contingent on the Court uses this move in their opinion to bolster their twisted reading of the law?
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It’s not an election year here in PA, so there is no reason, other than crappy republican politics and anti-Obama fever, to not approve the state exchange.
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Too bad you are not governor of Arizona!! We need you here!
With the clowns we have, we’re screwed!! And yet, I still have to pay my taxes, doesn’t seem fair.
Woooooo, Tom Wolf! You go, dude!!
The fact of the matter is that while the exchange might be using the Federal Healthcare.gov web site, the options are highly localized down to the county level, so for all practical purposes it is a local exchange.