Montana Expands Medicaid Coverage–And It'll Probably Bust The State's Projections

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

 

On Monday, Montana became the 30^th state to expand Medicaid coverage. Democratic Governor Steve Bullock said enrollment would begin sometime later this fall, with coverage starting by the start of next year (via AP):

The governor's office has said 70,000 people or more would be eligible for coverage under the expansion, but legislative fiscal analysts predicted about 45,700 would actually participate over the next four years. Medicaid expansion was a key part of President Barack Obama's health care reform law, but a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2012 made it optional for states.

So far, 29 other states and the District of Columbia have expanded their programs. Six of those states received federal waivers allowing them flexibility in designing their programs.

The aim is to expand eligibility to residents with incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level, about $16,000 per year for an individual and $33,000 for a family of four.

Bullock's original expansion plan stalled in this year's legislative session and was replaced by a compromise bill sponsored by Sen. Ed Buttrey, R-Great Falls.
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U.S. official: Islamic State (ISIS) bomb brought down Russian passenger plane

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

I expect that Obama will convene a conference on Islamophobia in light of this latest act of Islamic savagery. Terror-tied groups like CAIR will want more hate crime arrests for those who oppose jihad terror.

I also expect that Obama will continue to blame pilot error, just as he blamed a video for the jihad attack on our embassy in Benghazi. ISIS is, after all, only a “junior varsity” team.

“Russian plane crash: ISIS bomb likely brought down jet, U.S. official says”
By Barbara Starr, Catherine E. Shoichet and Ashley Fantz, CNN, November 4, 2015

(CNN)The latest U.S. intelligence suggests that the crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 was most likely caused by a bomb on the plane planted by ISIS or an ISIS affiliate,...

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Scandal Watch: VA Officials Plead the Fifth Over Abuse, Waste

Guy Benson / Townhall Tipsheet

Two high-ranking officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs exercised their constitutional right against self-incrimination today, declining to answer questions about a scheme in which they allegedly bilked taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Just to be clear, this kerfuffle is not to be confused with the larger VA scandal that was recently distorted and minimized by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. That corruption entailed the deliberate, systemic cover-up of unacceptably long waiting lists for care -- in part to protect bureaucrats' performance bonuses. This corruption is entirely different, though it speaks to the culture of of greed and wastefulness that seems to pervade much of the federal bureaucracy (via the Washington Post):

The Department of Veterans Affairs has suspended a relocation program used by two senior executives to obtain more than $400,000 in questionable moving expenses and moved to discipline the officials, a senior agency leader said Monday...Congress is investigating the executives for allegedly abusing their positions to get plum jobs and perks, part of a pattern of unjustified moving incentives and transfers identified by VA’s watchdog. The committee subpoenaed Pummill, the executives and the two lower-ranking regional benefits managers they forced to accept job transfers against their will, according to investigators. But the executives, Diana Rubens and Kimberly Graves, refused to testify, telling the committee they were asserting their Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution to protect themselves against self-incrimination...[Pummill] declined to say what action the agency is taking against Rubens and Graves, who kept their salaries of $181,497 and $173,949, respectively, even though the new positions they took had less responsibility, overseeing a fraction of the employees at lower pay levels.

Obama Handles Reporters by Locking Them in Sheds, Closets, Prisons But Mocks GOP’s CNBC Criticism

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

In this video, President Barack Obama mocks the GOP candidates for outing the bias of the CNBC debate moderators.

And yet even his running dogs in the media, like the AP, have complained about Obama’s press control and thuggish censorship:

The Obama White House routinely bars news media from meetings with foreign leaders and other events, then releases its own photos of those events —

The presidents of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Associated Press Media Editors have urged their members to stop using White House handout photos and video, saying they amount to propaganda.

For the second consecutive year, the Obama administration more often than ever censored government files or outright denied access to...

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Kerry urges Tajikistan not to go overboard in its crackdown on Islam
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

“Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Tuesday urged the president of Tajikistan not to go overboard in its crackdown on political Islam and expressions of faith….Although the population is 98 percent Muslim, several peaceful Muslim groups have been banned and their offices forced to close. Under the pretext of combatting Islam, men with long […]
 
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Unskilled, Uneducated, and Destined to Live on Welfare Forever

More than 80% of Muslim so-called ‘refugees’ arriving in Germany are unskilled, uneducated, and destined to live on welfare forever…and tens of millions more of them are on their way by BareNakedIslam

Over 80% of the Muslim invaders recently arrived in Germany  have no formal qualifications or job skills, and only eight percent have a college degree, local media reported citing research by the country's Federal Employment Agency. Even worse, there are tens of millions more of them on their way and at least 80% of them are […]

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