BEDFORD- The Lawrence County Commissioners are scheduled to meet on February 13 at 9:30 a.m. at the courthouse. The agenda for the meeting is as follows: Pledge of Allegiance Approval of Minutes for: January 23, 2024 Regular Meeting Approval of Claims Approval of Payroll Appointments:Brad Bough .
weeks. jaw dropping stuff, jonathan and betsy. is there a chance the president will actually declare a national emergency? i think there is. i was talking to white house sources about this. no decisions made. they are reviewing the findings. but the signals are they are taking them very seriously and the president wants to be aggressive on this issue. i do think it s possible that he might do this. he want to be aggressive, but is he putting his money where his mouth is? an extra problem now because there were $45 billion opioid money in this health bill that just collapsed in a steaming pile of whatever. so, he s got to find a new vehicle for funding, if they want to increase treatment, they need to find a new vehicle for it. and none is readily available. one piece of this that is interesting the opioid epidemic is important to kelly the new chief of staff. when he was growing up in working class boston a number of his childhood friends died from overdoses. those overdose dea
reporter: the current state involves, you know, reaching out to those more moderate senators who would like medicaid could be expanded to be expanded for its residents. and the state residents. also sweetening the deal with opioid money for senators like rob portman, and, you know, possibly allowing the senate to vote on an amendment offered by ted cruz that would that would allow each state to opt that would allow insurances to offer other plans that don t necessarily comply with the obamacare requirements as long as they offer a plan that does submit to those requirements. that said the repeal effort is more of a legislative, sort of a veiled threat to senators who voted in the pass for repeal only when, of course, they were in the minority they were in the majority but president obama
the brand new health care bill will get worse with age because medicaid spending will be 35% lower by 2036. numbers like that, small wonder somebody has come one a new strategy to ram the bill through. bribery. it s not my word. an unnamed source in the administration who told axios, i think we re going to pass. this i think they ll bribe off the moderates with opioid money. if it was going to fail, they would have put it on the floor. there is reporting indicating that behind closed doors today, mcconnell has been working his caucus. this idea that they ll use money for an opioid fund to woo back moderates. what do you make of that? well, what i make of it, they have about 17% of the american people supporting their legislation. what i make of it is they happen
bribery. it s not my word. an unnamed source in the administration who told axios, i think we re going to pass. this i think they ll bribe off the moderates with opioid money. if it was going to fail, they would have put it on the floor. there is reporting indicating that behind closed doors today, mcconnell has been working his caucus. this idea that they ll use money for an opioid fund to woo back moderates. what do you make of that? well, what i make of it, they have about 17% of the american people supporting their legislation. what i make of it is they happen to have the courage to hold one hearing in the united states senate to hear from doctors, to hear from hospitals, to hear from insurance companies. what i do know is their current proposal would throw 22 million people off health insurance,