Faced with a crisis, Brownback reconsiders ‘Obamacare’

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Faced with a crisis, Brownback reconsiders ‘Obamacare’

By Steve Benen at MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/faced-crisis-brownback-reconsiders-obamacare

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How dire have things gotten for the beleaguered Republican governor? The Lawrence Journal-World in Kansas reports that Brownback is starting to reconsider his contempt for the Affordable Care Act (via Daniel Strauss).

Gov. Sam Brownback suggested Wednesday that he might consider proposals to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, provided the Legislature can identify a way to pay for it.

“I’ve been pushing that anything we do on Medicaid expansion has to be 100-percent paid for,” Brownback said during impromptu remarks to the Kansas Association of Insurance Agents, who met at the Statehouse on Wednesday…. Brownback’s comments, which came in response to a question from one of the insurance agents, stood in stark contrast to his remarks on the campaign trail last year when he said he strongly opposed the federal health care law, also known as Obamacare, and criticized his Democratic opponent Paul Davis for supporting it.

To be sure, the governor isn’t officially on board, at least not yet. But Brownback was willing to say yesterday, “I haven’t said we’ll take it. I haven’t said we wouldn’t.” In this case, “it” is Medicaid expansion through the ACA.


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[Ken Burch]

1. I wonder if Brownback wakes up each morning and wishes he'd stayed in the Senate. n/t.

[Marie Marie]

2. I wish he had stayed an undeveloped sperm.

He and his ilk. Just sayin...

[RKP5637]

4. He's a horrible person! n/t

[madokie]

5. I think he's like a goose

wakes up in a different world every day

[RKP5637]

3. He's been a dreadful governor. Too bad the voters couldn't comprehend that in Koch-Land! n/t

[Thinkingabout]

6. Maybe he just woke up to the state having to pay for Medicaid currently and it would be more money

in the treasury to give more tax cuts.

[Omaha Steve]

7. F'd the state so bad....