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Who’s Attempting to Legislate Morality?

Originally published July 25, 2016, By Linda. Updated July 25, 2016. Leave a Comment

Who’s Attempting to Legislate Morality?

Filed Under: Civil Society, Faith, Featured, Founding Principles, Legal Limit, Morality, Personal Responsibility Tagged With: 2016 election, christianity, election, government, law, moral relativism, morality, personal responsibility, political philosophy, political principles

Sending Granny (and Gramps) to the Home

Originally published February 4, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Sending Granny (and Gramps) to the Home

Author’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles about Nebraska’s Medicaid program, the Unicameral’s apparent intent to expand it, and the many reasons why expansion is an uncommonly bad idea. Although they don’t have to be read in order, here are links to the previously-published articles in the series, and see the […]

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Budget, Budget, Charity vs Welfare, Civil Society, Deficit, Featured, Federal, Founding Principles, Government Spending, Health Care, In the News, Like Drunken Sailors, Nebraska, Personal Responsibility, Senators, State Legislation, Taxes, Unicameral, Welfare Tagged With: elder abuse, elder care in nebraska, elder nebraskans, elderly in nebraska, entitlement mentality, entitlement spending, estate planning for medicaid, estate planning to become medicaid eligible, expanding entitlements, expanding medicaid, expanding medicaid programs, expanding welfare, financial abuse of elderly, granny over cliff commercial, Health Care, health care law, health care reform, healthcare, healthcare reform, legislature, limited government, long term care, long term care insurance, medicaid, medicaid expansion under obamacare, medicaid for the elderly, medicaid payments for elderly, medicare reform, mediscare, moral hazard, nebraska budget, nebraska expanding medicaid, nebraska legislature, nebraska unicameral, nebraska welfare spending, nursing home care, obamacare, paul ryan, personal responsibility, politicians, politics, progressivism, push granny over cliff, ryan pushing granny off a cliff, ryan's plan to reform medicare, Ryan's plan to save medicare, self-interest, self-reliance, sense of entitlement, spend down provision under Medicaid, Unicameral, welfare spending

VIDEO NE State Senators Debate & Vote LB599 Medicaid Expansion for Illegals

Originally published April 23, 2012, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 1 Comment

VIDEO NE State Senators Debate & Vote LB599 Medicaid Expansion for Illegals

Below is video from last Wednesday’s Unicameral floor speeches and the votes to over ride the Governor’s vetoes of LB599 and its funding bill, LB599A. Each video is proceeded by: Senator’s name and district number Re-election status Detailed list of how each Senator voted in each of the four rounds required to pass the bills […]

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NE Legislature Passes Reckless Medicaid Expansion Providing Benefits to Illegal Immigrants

Originally published April 19, 2012, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 6 Comments

NE Legislature Passes Reckless Medicaid Expansion Providing Benefits to Illegal Immigrants

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, April 19, 2012 Media Inquiries Nebraska Legislature Passes Reckless Medicaid Expansion Providing Benefits to Illegal Immigrants Lincoln, NE Nebraska’s State Legislature voted Wednesday afternoon, the 60th and final day of the 102nd Unicameral, 2nd Session, to override Governor Dave Heineman’s veto of LB599, a bill which creates a separate Nebraska Medicaid […]

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How NE Senators Voted: LB599 (and FUNDING) Veto Overrides

Originally published April 19, 2012, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 10 Comments

How NE Senators Voted: LB599 (and FUNDING) Veto Overrides

How NE State Senators voted on LB599 veto override AND its funding mechanism. We’ve also provided information on Senators’ re-election status. Read full articleHow NE Senators Voted: LB599 (and FUNDING) Veto Overrides

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LB599 Veto Override: NE Senators Better Think It Over

Originally published April 17, 2012, By Shellinda. Updated July 21, 2015. 2 Comments

LB599 Veto Override: NE Senators Better Think It Over

Last updated September 15, 2014 To read how Nebraska’s State Senators voted on this bill, see our article, “How NE Senators Voted: LB599 (and FUNDING) Veto Overrides” UPDATE Thursday, April 29, 2012 @6:39pm: Unfortunately, the NE Unicameral voted 30 to 16 to override the Governor’s veto on LB599 this afternoon between 4-5pm. ___________ NE Senators […]

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GiN Editorial in Journal Star: Governor needs to use LB599 veto to draw a line

Originally published April 13, 2012, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

GiN Editorial in Journal Star: Governor needs to use LB599 veto to draw a line

Readers are referred to a Local View column published today, April 13, 2012, in the Lincoln Journal-Star that was co-written by Shelli and me.  In the article, we argue that Governor Heineman should use the opportunity presented by his veto of LB599 to draw a line against the Unicameral’s profligate spending.  I recommend that readers […]

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Contacting Your Senator: LB599 Medicaid Expansion, Illegals

Originally published April 11, 2012, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Contacting Your Senator: LB599 Medicaid Expansion, Illegals

Last evening we published the letter we sent to 48 of Nebraska’s Senators about LB599. We also wanted to share a letter from one of our readers who contacted his own Senator, Colby Coash (District 27), who voted for LB599 in the first two rounds. Even IF you read this article after the third round […]

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Legislative Irresponsibility: LB599, NE Budget & Health Care Law

Originally published April 10, 2012, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Legislative Irresponsibility: LB599, NE Budget & Health Care Law

GiN’s letter to all NE Senators regarding LB599 – the effort to expand Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants and others deemed ineligible by the Federal government.  Read full articleLegislative Irresponsibility: LB599, NE Budget & Health Care Law

Filed Under: Budget, Charity vs Welfare, Civil Society, Featured, Government Spending, Governor, Health Care, Immigration, Morality, Nebraska, Personal Responsibility, Senators, State Legislation, State Sovereignty, Stimulus, Tenth Amendment, Unicameral Tagged With: 102nd legislature nebraska, 2005 medicaid reform ne, 2006 medicaid ne, 2009 unicameral session, 2010 sovereignty resolution nebraska, 2010 sovereignty resolutions, 2012 legislature nebraska medicaid expansion, 2012 unicameral medicaid, abortion versus illegal immigration, acceptance of federal funds and state sovereignty, catholic legislative lobbying, catholics promoting government welfare, chief justice john roberts, chip program nebraska, cradle to grave dependency, dave heineman, encouraging illegal immigration, encouraging irresponsibility, entitlement spending, entitlement spending nebraska, exploding cost of welfare, federal government medicaid requirements, federal poverty guidelines in health care law, gin letter to senators re: lb599, governor heineman veto, grassroots in nebraska letter to senators medicaid expansion, grassroots in nebraska letter to state senators lb599, health care law maintenance of effort requirement, health care reform law, heineman veto, history of medicaid nebraska, illegal immigrants, increasing eligibility for medicaid, john roberts state sovereignty, justice roberts comments medicaid and sovereignty, kathy campbell, lb1110, lb1248, lb599, lb709, legislative history lb599, legislative journal lb599, low-income women, lr292 sovereignty resolution, lr539 nebraska, maintenance of effort, mandates on states medicaid health care law, medicaid abortion, medicaid coercion, medicaid coercion in health care law, medicaid managed care, medicaid program, medicaid reform nebraska, ne lr292, ne medicaid expansion, ne medicaid spending, nebraska arra funds, nebraska budget, nebraska expanding medicaid, nebraska medicaid bailout, nebraska medicaid benefits, nebraska medicaid reform legislation, nebraska progressives, nebraska special session budget, nebraska stimulus, nebraska stimulus accepted, nebraska unicameral, number of abortions in nebraska, obamacare, optional medicaid services nebraska, oral arguments supreme court, percentage of births paid for by medicaid in nebraska, personal responsibility, prenatal coverage abortion, preventing abortion, progressivism in nebraska, schips nebraska, social justice, state acceptance of stimulus funds, state senators sovereignty nebraska, state sovereignty resolution, state sovereignty resolution nebraska, stimulus medicaid bailout, subsidizing irresponsibility, use of stimulus funds, welfare expansion, welfare programs nebraska, welfare spending, welfare spending nebraska

Golden Oldie: Past Shows Us How Health Care OUGHT to Be

Originally published April 2, 2012, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. 1 Comment

Golden Oldie: Past Shows Us How Health Care OUGHT to Be

As of Friday, nine people know the outcome of the states’ lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Congress’ inaptly named “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” a/k/a Obamacare. The Justices voted at a closed-door conference, but we won’t know what they concluded until June. They and their clerks will spend the time between now and June […]

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