Interesting. Governor Mike Beebe and Attorney General Dustin McDaniel should really start paying attention.
According to Politico Pro [$]:
More than $860 million of President Barack Obama’s proposed $1 billion increase in the CMS budget will go to building the federal exchange, acting [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] Administrator Marilyn Tavenner said during a budget briefing at HHS on Monday.
This funding is necessary in part because the amount originally appropriated for the federal costs of implementing the Affordable Care Act — $1 billion — is expected to be gone by the end of this year, HHS officials said.
Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources Ellen Murray said at the briefing that half of these funds have already been obligated, and the remaining amount will be used by the end of the year.
She also said states will still be able to get help building exchanges, because other ACA funds are still available for exchange work.
“Funding for [state grants] was provided in the Affordable Care Act, so the money we’re asking for in this budget is just for the federal exchange,” Murray said.
In other words, the federal government doesn’t have the money to create ObamaCare Exchanges, and the administration has no hope of getting that funding through the Republican-controlled House. So if states don’t create Exchanges, they might not exist. (And even if the federal government does create them, they won’t work.)
Never mind the lawsuits. The Exchanges may be ObamaCare’s most serious vulnerability.
Do you know that peole still get care under law at any hospital and cannot be turned away?
the 20% of Americans and illegals that live here ar cared for know matter what. For you to spend billions on a law that will bankrupt America is just what you want to do and be in the circle with Obama when he destroys the USA. We are not a communist country, but we soon will be with your help. You have got to protect us under th oath that you took. Try to remember we are the ones that pay the taxes and without us you are without a job. I hope you keep giving everything away and soon we will be owned and operated by China and Russia. I know you have know concern for the working class in Arkansas but for the less fortunate and those are mostly the people that need to abide by the ruls and get a job. We will help the others from our churches and out of pocket whether we can afford it or not.
Try to be a governor and not a person under the presidents thumb like so many others in his front circle.
An American Citizen
Linda Napierala
probably a good thing to do would be to get govt out of the market and let the sytesm crash and rebuild itself. It might mean that Hopsitals/MDs/etc etc go broke and/or out of business without any state/federal support because they have chosen to continue to pay high salaries and charge outrageous fees. Then newcomes step in and offere superiour treatment for less. Either that or move towards universal which we should have since we pay into it in the form of Social Security&Medicare.
, “it is much easier to let the cat out of the bag then it is to put it back.” So it seems obama’s slotuion is the insurance companies pay for the contraceptives, and abortions and not the hospitals. How did he turn it around to payment? I was under the impression the problem was administrating the drugs or providing them not paying for them. Also has anyone seen obama change his mind before, after the fact and a good slotuion result? Who thinks if not fought all the way by the Catholics it will not later be imposed by this president? Probably down the road when there is less attention being paid then now and when the outcome may not be detrimental to his presidency. Or get quite so much publicity. Obama has demonstrated time and time again he does not talk the same actions he preforms. What he does and what he says he is going to do are, in most cases, if not all cases, not the same but opposite. That is his smoke screen!Steve Elliot is correct in his analogy we have been “stupaked” by obama. However, an older analogy is “he double crossed” Americans. And nearly everyone understands that. But not just in the case of this recent attack on religion. As a matter of fact almost daily for over three years. Because we have been lied too and deceived, nearly daily for that three years how can it be he is still able to continue his charade without being exposed by the main stream media? Obama said there would be no lobbyist allowed within his administration, yet within thirty days after he took office he installed several. He also said he would be the most transparent president ever in the history of the United States, and he has turned out to the most secretive. Which was demonstrated quite well during the passage of obamacare. He also said he would bring the country together but instead has been a separatist. He passed The Affordable Healthcare Act, (obamacare) stating how wonderful it was and then issued over two thousand wavers to people and companies who thought it sucked, while forcing it on the rest of us. It would be easy to go on and on about his incompetency but we are all aware of his acts. However, incompetency may not be the right term because as every day passes it becomes more apparent his acts are intentional. But then he did promise us fundamental transformation. He just never explained it. By not explaining it he could never be claimed to be incorrect in his actions because there is no goal planned just like there is no budget, consequently, he has no guide lines or consequences to his actions. Is that smart or destructive?