First of all, we couldnt dealt with the debt of the existing medicaid, which is for women, the elderly, children, and the disabled. What Medicaid Expansion does is expand that to much more of the population, and i could argue for good reasons because theyre being served off in the emergency room and so forth, but the dilemma i had was this. In a very short period of time, i would have had to put a brand new democracy bureaucracy together at a time period that i couldnt meet. I knew i couldnt meet it. When my current bureaucracy couldnt handle medicaid cost overruns happening. In my state, it was 500 million over projections set forth by the Previous Legislature and previous governor. Over 500 million over projection. Thats out of a 20 billion budget. Thats a big hit. There went all my teacher raises right there. Infrastructure. So the Medicaid Expansion is, i think, one of the most difficult issues on governors plates right now. Let me tell you the other issue we are having, and that i
This week on moyers company, all of the various fields of human inquiry, theology and philosophy and morality and psychology meet rather beautifully in politics and sometimes i wonder if politics isnt exactly that. Its the taking of all the sort of great things and trying to have them make some meaning in the actual historical moment on earth in which we live. Funding is provided by Carnegie Corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. The coalberg foundation, independent Production Fund with support from the partridge foundation. The clements foundation, park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The he ared foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The bernard and Audrey Rappaport foundation. And the betsey fink foundation. Barbara g. Fleischmann and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america,digning
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