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The federal government on Thursday began making good on its promise to cut off all funding for the Texas Medicaid Women's Health Program amid an escalating fight over the state's ban on funding for clinics affiliated with abortion providers. In a letter to state officials, Cindy Mann, director of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said her agency regretted the move. "We had hoped not to be at this point. But, unfortunately, as we've made clear to the state at all points in this process, we don't have a choice," Mann said on a conference call with reporters after sending the letter...
The standoff stems from a law passed by the Legislature last summer and took effect Wednesday. It bars state funding for clinics affiliated with abortion providers. The Obama administration had pledged to stop funding the Women's Health Program because federal law requires women to be able to choose any qualified clinic. Gov. Rick Perry counters that states have the right, under federal law, to determine qualified providers in the program. The program provides care to about 130,000 women between the ages of 18 and 44 earning less than $20,000 a year or less than $41,000 for a family of four with federal funds paying 90 percent of its cost and Texas covering the rest. Mann said that last year it cost about $41 million, and about $34 million of that came from Washington...Planned Parenthood issued a statement criticizing the actions taken by Perry and the Texas Legislature.
Federal law is NOT be all to end all in this.
Actually, sounds like the state is to blame on this one. Why do they think they don't have to follow Federal law?
Federal law is NOT be all to end all in this.
Actually, sounds like the state is to blame on this one. Why do they think they don't have to follow Federal law?
Actually, sounds like the state is to blame on this one. Why do they think they don't have to follow Federal law?
Federal law is NOT be all to end all in this.Actually, sounds like the state is to blame on this one. Why do they think they don't have to follow Federal law?
Really? Then what is?
Actually, sounds like the state is to blame on this one. Why do they think they don't have to follow Federal law?
The federal law that allows states to determine who is, and is not, qualified for state funds?
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On the contrary. He has two daughters and while you may not like him, he is still a father. And he doesn't want the fringe fuckups in this country to deprive them of their rights. Make sense? Hello...???? (Thumping on empty skull) Hmmm...sounds empty in there.
Federal law is NOT be all to end all in this.Actually, sounds like the state is to blame on this one. Why do they think they don't have to follow Federal law?
Really? Then what is?
On the contrary. He has two daughters and while you may not like him, he is still a father. And he doesn't want the fringe fuckups in this country to deprive them of their rights. Make sense? Hello...???? (Thumping on empty skull) Hmmm...sounds empty in there.
Federal law is NOT be all to end all in this.
Really? Then what is?
Our nation was designed based on federalism.
That means a sharing of power between the central and the state governments; it does not mean that the states are merely agencies of the central government.
But, of course, that was when we believed in adherence to the Constitution.
Actually, sounds like the state is to blame on this one. Why do they think they don't have to follow Federal law?
The federal law that allows states to determine who is, and is not, qualified for state funds?
As interpreted by Rick "I've Never Seen Brokeback Mountain" Perry.
Thanks, but I'll stick with the interpretation that came from the people who passed the law.
"Medicaid law is clear—patients, not state government officials, are able to choose the health-care providers that are best for them and their families," said Cindy Mann, a top official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in a conference call with reporters after the letter was released.
Completely ignorant...but not his fault...he is a victim of Gubmint schools run by Unions...The federal law that allows states to determine who is, and is not, qualified for state funds?
As interpreted by Rick "I've Never Seen Brokeback Mountain" Perry.
Thanks, but I'll stick with the interpretation that came from the people who passed the law.
Exactly the kind of individual that the Left loves.
And the attitude that got us into this mess.
One wonders whether the right wing conservatives and republicans understand the meaning of bullshit today? Allow me to give them the definition so the next time they post nonsense and the choir of the brain dead puppets sing the same chorus lines, they think maybe just a bit. "It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth - this indifference to how things really are - that I regard as of the essence of bullshit.*" Since Texas rates so low on HS graduates and other educational statistics, I guess maybe they don't even know what BS is? They may think it is something from a bull or something?
* Harry Frankfurt
