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10-10-2015, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Guest
Did you read the history of the ACA, that was included in a previous post? I know that you didn't by reading this post. You insist that people provide the links to a post, but when they do you don't read them.
In case you haven't noticed, and by your remakes you haven't, the Senate Republicans vote as a group on almost everything.
The person suggested that Mary Landrieu, Senator from Louisiana, ACA vote was bought by sending a lot of money to Louisiana. Well, a lot of money was sent to LA. It was Hurricane Katrina relief. So, sending disaster relief money buys you a vote! So, what vote was Obama looking for from Christie, when he sent disaster relief money to NJ for Sandy?
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St affers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase.
On the eve of Saturday's showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn't secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered a sweetener: at least $100 million in extra federal money for her home state.
And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor midafternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote -- and to trumpet the financial "fix" she had arranged for Louisiana. "I am not going to be defensive," she declared. "And it's not a $100 million fix. It's a $300 million fix."
Dana Milbank - Sweeteners for the South
"Do you remember the “Louisiana Purchase?” I don’t mean Thomas Jefferson’s acquisition of land from Napoleon, but rather Democrats’ acquisition of Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D., La.) support for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for gaining $200 million additional federal funds for Louisiana’s Medicaid program. Except that, due to a drafting error, the law ended up giving Louisiana $4.3 billion in extra Medicaid funds: more than twenty times the assigned amount. How this happened, and how Congress failed to fully fix it, is a microcosm of our new health law’s many flaws."
Forbes Welcome
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