MAINE SENATE VOTES FOR HEALTHCARE EXPANSION

The Maine State Senate has voted to tie expansion of medicaid to repayment of hospitals.
Although this is good news, the vote of 20 to 15, basically on party lines, is not enough to override an inevitable veto by the Governor. I hope they can bring the expansion forward again on its own and try to get more Republican support. Senate Republicans called this a major welfare expansion. The right to health care for poor or disabled people, indeed for all people, is not welfare. It is so offensive to me that they would say this. We all know these types, they hate lower income people basically. They are out for themselves and their buddies, never mind everyone else. The Republican slogan is "I got mine, f**ck the rest of you." Well, less than two years to go and we can get rid of the embarrassment that is Governor Le page. This guy wrote the book on abrasiveness and ignorance. He had the audacity to say he does not play politics and that the Maine people are being played for patsies. THE VAST MAJORITY OF US DID NOT VOTE FOR YOU. I would like to give a shout out to Sen Troy Jackson of Allagash who spoke passionately for the bill. Justice will eventually be done.
-Nat