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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Friday vetoed a bill that attempted to make the state's expansion of Medicaid eligibility permanent under the healthcare law known as Obamacare, his office said on Friday.
Christie's office announced he vetoed eight bills that "would add potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to state and local budgets." He also signed a $32.9 billion budget and three other bills, his office said in a statement.
Christie, a critic of Obamacare, said in February he would accept federal money to expand Medicaid in New Jersey, and the state budget he signed on Friday included $227 million in such funds.
Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly had passed a bill seeking to make that Medicaid expansion permanent, but Christie vetoed it, a spokesman for the governor said.....snip~
New Jersey's Christie vetoes Medicaid expansion bill
Well lookie here.....notice what the Democrats are doing with Obamacare. Pushing to make the medicaid expansion Permanent in states . I would look for them to do so in other states as well. Hopefully Other Republican governors will keep an eye out and do the same as Christie, should the Demos fall back to their usual tactics.
So what do any of our NJ members think?
Christie's office announced he vetoed eight bills that "would add potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to state and local budgets." He also signed a $32.9 billion budget and three other bills, his office said in a statement.
Christie, a critic of Obamacare, said in February he would accept federal money to expand Medicaid in New Jersey, and the state budget he signed on Friday included $227 million in such funds.
Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly had passed a bill seeking to make that Medicaid expansion permanent, but Christie vetoed it, a spokesman for the governor said.....snip~
New Jersey's Christie vetoes Medicaid expansion bill
Well lookie here.....notice what the Democrats are doing with Obamacare. Pushing to make the medicaid expansion Permanent in states . I would look for them to do so in other states as well. Hopefully Other Republican governors will keep an eye out and do the same as Christie, should the Demos fall back to their usual tactics.
So what do any of our NJ members think?