Via TPM: Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) signed legislation Monday to expand the state’s Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. The expansion is expected to expand health coverage to more than 300,000 Michiganders in its first year and nearly 500,000 eventually. When the Supreme Court ruling came out that decided the Feds were offering too …
Fuck The Poor
Expand and loot
Good news (via Politico) for Pennsylvania: Republican Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is planning a Monday press conference to throw his support behind a version of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, industry and legislative sources tell POLITICO. Corbett’s eyeing versions of expansion that rely on private-sector health plans rather than adding to the public Medicaid rolls, similar to …
Show your hand
I saw that Cuccinelli in Virginia released his education plan (pdf) so I thought I’d compare his work to model bills churned out by ALEC, the corporate-owned state law factory. Cuccinelli: Review and reform teaching requirements and establish paths to teacher licensure external to education institutions. Model Law that corporations wrote: Offer teaching credentials to …
More of This, Please
This is great: Talking to David Gregory on NBC’s Meet The press, King argued that immigration reform would entail granting citizenship to “a lot of people…up to the age of 35″ who smuggled drugs over the Mexican border. Navarro hit back hard, telling King he needed to “get therapy” for his bigoted views about Latinos: …
I Thought Being an Engineer Would Pay Better
The toilet in my hotel room broke, so I called the front desk and the lady told me they will have an “engineer” up right away to fix it, so I am assuming “engineer” is a euphemism for the maintenance man. Regardless, it reminded me of this excellent Henry Blodget piece the other day in …
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Indivisible
Commenter Summer sent me a wonderful (short) video of the Moral Monday protests. Mistermix tells me I can’t embed it, so you’ll have to follow the link to watch but it’s worth it. Thousands marched from Halifax Mall to Fayetteville Street to hear a fiery speech delivered by N.C. NAACP President William Barber II during …
Finally, a God Botherer Doing Something Useful
The Church of England wants to compete payday lenders out of business: The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the principal leader of England’s state religion, the Church of England, plans to force payday loan sharks out of business. The Church already invests in businesses, and is looking to invest money in credit unions to help …
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