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Medicare Expansion Set To Dilate A Budget Near You

Posted on | August 20, 2013 | 29 Comments

by Smitty

I had already planned to take a long weekend when I heard about Americans for Prosperity’s Hands Off My Healthcare rally in Richmond.

It was a drizzly affair, with roughly 500 in attendance from all over the state. Speakers included Delegate Steve Landes, who dared to ask questions like “Aren’t we already broke?” and Dr. Clara Belle Wheeler, who did not exactly characterize the existing Medicaid program as an Oldsmobile Delmont 88 with submarine dreams, but certainly expressed misgivings:
Follow the links above for more details, stay tuned as I work through the rest of the video, and above all: STAY ENGAGED.

Category: Health Care, Virginia

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29 Responses to “Medicare Expansion Set To Dilate A Budget Near You”

  1. MrEvilMatt
    August 20th, 2013 @ 8:43 pm

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  2. Lockestep1776
    August 20th, 2013 @ 8:43 pm

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  3. CHideout
    August 20th, 2013 @ 8:43 pm

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  4. Citzcom
    August 20th, 2013 @ 8:43 pm

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  5. jwbrown1969
    August 20th, 2013 @ 8:43 pm

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  6. thatMrGguy
    August 20th, 2013 @ 8:51 pm

    Medicare Expansion Set To Dilate A Budget Near You http://t.co/IPDHnwtmSl

  7. gmardre
    August 20th, 2013 @ 9:35 pm

    “Medicare Expansion Set To Dilate A Budget Near You” good read http://t.co/e39eLuwzbh

  8. richard mcenroe
    August 20th, 2013 @ 10:17 pm

    This thread doesn’t seem very interesting. Are there any lesbian rapists in that crowd? *g*

  9. RMNixonDeceased
    August 20th, 2013 @ 10:21 pm

    Medicare Expansion Set To Dilate A Budget Near You http://t.co/v1TzIc7m4O

  10. TheAdgenda
    August 20th, 2013 @ 10:23 pm

    sista
    Medicare Expansion Set To Dilate A Budget Near You

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  11. Professor_Why
    August 20th, 2013 @ 10:30 pm

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  12. Robin H
    August 20th, 2013 @ 10:31 pm

    No, that’s why none of the MSM would cover it 🙁

  13. Scob
    August 20th, 2013 @ 11:21 pm

    Thank you for covering this protest of Medicaid expansion. Work conflicts would not allow me to join.

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    August 21st, 2013 @ 3:23 am

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  15. NeoWayland
    August 21st, 2013 @ 10:12 am

    I’m still curious what part of the Constitution (besides the commerce clause) gives the Feds any say whatever in health care. It was messed up before ObamaCare, and I don’t see it getting any better.

    At least, not until the dollar collapses.

  16. RS
    August 21st, 2013 @ 11:12 am

    We need to remember that Medicare was a program whose unstated purpose was to relieve Baby Boomers of the obligation to care for their elderly parents. Not only was it another cut in the decades long campaign to destroy the family in favor of paternalistic government, but of course, was doomed to fail because the boomers stopped having enough kids to fund it. Thus we arrive where we are today.

  17. smitty
    August 21st, 2013 @ 5:12 pm

    I asked a Progressive, and he explained: “Shut up.”

  18. smitty_one_each
    August 21st, 2013 @ 5:12 pm

    “Thank you for covering this protest of Medicaid expansion. Work conflicts would not allow me to join.” — Scob http://t.co/SHABQL4Flw

  19. smitty_one_each
    August 21st, 2013 @ 5:13 pm

    “I asked a Progressive, and he explained: “Shut up.”” — smitty http://t.co/guNMfUeg5i

  20. smitty_one_each
    August 21st, 2013 @ 5:13 pm

    “We need to remember that Medicare was a program whose unstated purpose was to relieve Baby Boomers of the…” — RS http://t.co/zIk4srn3uB

  21. rapidcraft
    August 21st, 2013 @ 5:14 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: “I asked a Progressive, and he explained: “Shut up.”” — smitty http://t.co/guNMfUeg5i

  22. PATR2014
    August 21st, 2013 @ 5:14 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: “I asked a Progressive, and he explained: “Shut up.”” — smitty http://t.co/guNMfUeg5i

  23. thejenn999
    August 21st, 2013 @ 5:17 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: “I asked a Progressive, and he explained: “Shut up.”” — smitty http://t.co/guNMfUeg5i

  24. dreamAndreen
    August 21st, 2013 @ 5:17 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: “We need to remember that Medicare was a program whose unstated purpose was to relieve Baby Boomers of the…” — RS http…

  25. mac80538
    August 21st, 2013 @ 5:39 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: “I asked a Progressive, and he explained: “Shut up.”” — smitty http://t.co/guNMfUeg5i

  26. SwiperTheFox
    August 21st, 2013 @ 7:15 pm

    “They have the same likes signs and like shirts and like were organized by this activist group like and so it’s just evil corporate astroturf!1!11!!!”

    /left-wing media

  27. BobBelvedere
    August 21st, 2013 @ 8:16 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: “I asked a Progressive, and he explained: “Shut up.”” — smitty http://t.co/guNMfUeg5i

  28. donsurber
    August 22nd, 2013 @ 8:45 am

    “the existing Medicaid program (is) an Oldsmobile Delmont 88 with submarine dreams” — @rsmccain
    http://t.co/cHJKJXCGC0

  29. CFronds
    August 22nd, 2013 @ 9:15 am

    RT @donsurber: “the existing Medicaid program (is) an Oldsmobile Delmont 88 with submarine dreams” — @rsmccain
    http://t.co/cHJKJXCGC0