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NE Medicaid Expansion: Birth of an Entitlement Nation

Originally published April 22, 2018, By Linda. Updated April 22, 2018. Leave a Comment

NE Medicaid Expansion:  Birth of an Entitlement Nation

The purpose of this article is to sketch a short history of Medicaid.  Why? “We study the past to understand the present; we understand the present to guide the future.”     — William Lund Nebraskans are, even now, being asked to sign a petition to put the question of whether to expand the state’s Medicaid program […]

Filed Under: Budget, Charity vs Welfare, Featured, Government Spending, Health Care, Medicaid, Nebraska, Welfare Tagged With: ballot initiative, ballot initiatives, Featured, government spending, Health Care, health care law, health care reform, healthcare, healthcare reform, initiative petition, medicaid, medicaid expansion, nebraska budget, nebraska medicaid expansion

NE Medicaid Expansion: The Race is On (AGAIN)

Originally published April 14, 2018, By Linda. Updated April 22, 2018. 1 Comment

NE Medicaid Expansion:  The Race is On (AGAIN)

Back on January 17, 2013, I published an article here at the GiN website entitled “NE Medicaid Expansion: The Race is On.”  I followed up with an entire series of articles detailing why Medicaid expansion is an uncommonly bad idea.  Those articles were widely read and, I believe, effective in helping to prevent Medicaid expansion […]

Filed Under: Charity vs Welfare, Featured, Government Spending, Health Care, Medicaid, Nebraska, Personal Responsibility, State Legislation, Taxes, Unicameral, Welfare Tagged With: ballot initiative, ballot initiatives, Featured, Health Care, health care reform, healthcare reform, initiative petition, medicaid, medicaid expansion, nebraska medicaid expansion

Obamcare’s Gruber: It’s Not About Calling You Stupid

Originally published December 21, 2014, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated September 8, 2015. Leave a Comment

Obamcare’s Gruber: It’s Not About Calling You Stupid

Economist Jonathan Gruber gained wide notoriety in November when it seemed that each new day revealed a new video of the MIT professor arrogantly crowing about his uber-insider participation in what he portrayed as deception of “too stupid” American voters and Congress in the effort to get the health care law passed. I think it […]

Filed Under: Congress, Featured, Health Care, Ruling Class Tagged With: cbo, committee, conflict of interest, congress, congressional budget office, corruption, exchanges, experts, funds, government, health care law, health insurance, hearing, jonathan gruber, obamacare, oversight, reform, taxpayer

Obamacare Could Implode: The IRS Rule Supreme Court Case

Originally published December 15, 2014, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated September 7, 2015. 2 Comments

Obamacare Could Implode: The IRS Rule Supreme Court Case

On Friday, November 7, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a case that could cause

Filed Under: Featured, Health Care, Legal Limit Tagged With: employer mandate, federal health insurance exchanges, health care law, individual mandate, irs rule, king v burwell, legal challenges, obamacare, penalties, premium subsidies, state-based insurance exchanges, supreme court

The Lesser of Two Evils is Still Evil

Originally published May 4, 2014, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

The Lesser of Two Evils is Still Evil

I was sitting at my kitchen table today sorting through the week’s mail, the lion’s share of which was campaign mailers from political candidates.  That’s not surprising, since the primary election is May 13th.  What was a surprising coincidence was, at that very moment, one of the candidates for the state legislature in my district […]

Filed Under: 2014 Elections, Character, Civil Society, Elections, Featured, Founding Principles, Health Care, Medicaid, Nebraska, Republican Party, Ruling Class, Unicameral Tagged With: character and electibility, character counts, character matters, edmund burke, electability, electable, founding principles, gin, Grassroots in Nebraska, healthcare, ne, nebraska legislature, nebraska unicameral, politics, public opinion, role of a state senator, role of an elected official, role of an elected representative, state senators, Unicameral, what makes a candidate electable

OBAMACARE: When You Put Out a Fire, What Do You Replace It With?

Originally published March 29, 2014, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. 2 Comments

OBAMACARE: When You Put Out a Fire, What Do You Replace It With?

No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: “But what would you replace it with?” When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with? — Thomas Sowell I agree wholeheartedly with Thomas Sowell, so you may be surprised to learn that the purpose […]

Filed Under: Featured, Federal, Health Care, Medicaid Tagged With: aca, affordable care act, free market, free market solutions, government spending, Health Care, health care law, health care reform, health insurance, health insurance reform, healthcare reform, limited government, medicaid, nebraska legislature, nebraska unicameral, obamacare, progressivism, thomas sowell

Health Care Law’s Achilles Heel? A Growing Legal Morass

Originally published September 13, 2013, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Health Care Law’s Achilles Heel? A Growing Legal Morass

There are a number of well-kept secrets about the health care law, but I think the increasing legal morass has become the most important. “Morass” is a negative word: A growing number of citizens, businesses, and the state of Oklahoma have turned to the court system to seek relief. This means Americans are – or […]

Filed Under: Constitution, Federal, Health Care, Legal Limit Tagged With: becket fund, Constitution, contraception mandate, coons v. geithner, defund obamacare, department of health and human services, employer mandate, halbig v. sebelius, health care law, hobby lobby v. sebelius, independent payment advisory board, insurance exchanges, ipab, irs rule, legal challenges, liberty university v. geithner, litigation, medicaid expansion, morning after pill, nfib v sebelius, obamacare, oklahoma v. sebelius, penalties, premium subsidies, rule of law, sissel v. h.h.s., supreme court, tax credits

Ruling: State Lawsuit Against Illegal ObamaCare IRS Rule Can Proceed

Originally published September 12, 2013, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 2 Comments

Ruling: State Lawsuit Against Illegal ObamaCare IRS Rule Can Proceed

On August 11, 2013, a federal judge ruled that the State of Oklahoma has standing to proceed with a lawsuit challenging an Internal Revenue Service rule issued in May 2012 regarding premium subsidies in the form of tax credits and penalties delivered through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchange provisions. Oklahoma’s Attorney General Scott Pruitt […]

Filed Under: Featured, Federal Legislation, Health Care, Legal Limit, State Sovereignty Tagged With: aca, attorney general, attorneys general, congress, defund, governor, governors, health care law, insurance exchanges, irs, jon bruning, jonathan adler, lawsuit, legislators, litigation, michael cannon, nfib v sebelius, obamacare, oklahoma, ppaca, state senators

Not Really Adjourned: NE Legislature, Medicaid Expansion, ObamaCare

Originally published June 11, 2013, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Not Really Adjourned: NE Legislature, Medicaid Expansion, ObamaCare

“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.” ~ Gideon J. Tucker, 18661The quotation is often attributed to Mark Twain, but that’s an error. We previously gave attribution to Twain ourselves. Gideon Tucker does …continue Wednesday, June 5, was the final day of the 103rd Unicameral, 1st Session. I […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Care, Medicaid, Nebraska, Senators, State Legislation, Unicameral Tagged With: beau mccoy, colby coash, health care law, kathy campbell, lb577, medicaid, medicaid expansion, nebraska department of health and human services, nebraska republicans, obamacare, state legislature, Unicameral

Senator Bob Krist Withdraws As Co-Introducer of Medicaid Expansion Bill (LB577)

Originally published April 20, 2013, By Shellinda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Senator Bob Krist Withdraws As Co-Introducer of Medicaid Expansion Bill (LB577)

District 10 GOP Senator Bob Krist withdrew as co-introducer of the bill aimed at an extensive expansion of Nebraska’s largest welfare program. So, now what? Read full articleSenator Bob Krist Withdraws As Co-Introducer of Medicaid Expansion Bill (LB577)

Filed Under: Health Care, Medicaid, Senators, State Legislation Tagged With: aca, bob krist, cedars youth services, douglas county republican party, greg adams, Health Care, health care law, heath mello, jeremy nordquist, kathy campbell, lb577, legislative debate, legislative journal, medicaid, medicaid expansion, nebraska, nebraska medicaid, negop, obamacare, one world clinic, patient protection and affordable care act, ppaca, sara howard

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