Less than a week before Gov. Jan Brewer officially stops being governor, she gets a blow from the Arizona Supreme Court. Her expansion of Medicaid may get kicked. Her move to sign that bill was actually a good one, though.
From The Associated Press today.
The Arizona Supreme Court is allowing a lawsuit challenging Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid expansion to proceed in a major blow to her signature achievement as governor.
The court ruled Wednesday that lawmakers can sue over a hospital assessment that funds the expansion. Republicans in the House and Senate sued after a bare majority passed the expansion in June 2013. They argued the assessment is essentially a tax requiring a two-thirds majority vote to pass.
A Maricopa County judge in February dismissed the case, saying the Legislature itself decides if a super majority vote is needed. But the court of appeals overruled that in April and the Supreme Court agreed.
Goldwater Institute lawyers representing 36 Republican lawmakers plan to ask the county judge to halt the assessment immediately.
This article appears in Jan 1-7, 2015.
More like single achievement as Governor. The Republicans in the Legislature are showing just how much they really care about the non-rich in Arizona. Let’s see if they can find some compassion in 2015 and put a stop to this disgusting show of class warfare.
If the Republicans in the Legislature would pass a law that reinstated everybody that lost their jobs and restored the hour’s to people that got cut to 20HR’s with benefits I would agree. All this Obama BS just screwed us all.
Wow! 25,000 will lose med. coverage. Bullshit! Those people go in to Urgent Care and never pay anyway. The taxpayer covers the cost. Most of them are Illegal Aliens anyway! They need to be deported!
You guys have got to watch another channel besides FOX. No one gets onto the Affordable Care Act that is not a US citizen. Thousands of people who work low paying jobs with no medical coverage can now get medical care and coverage for pre-existing conditions. If companies like Walmart paid their employees a fair wage (like Costco), then their employees wouldn’t have to apply (and get) food stamps and cost tax payer billions of dollars. Let’s get the huge corporations off the welfare line and out of our tax paying pockets.
Well if you don’t want the facts then don’t watch FOX. The problem with the Affordable Care Act is anybody that was working 40 HR’s got cut like me to 20 HR’s so the employer doesn’t have to pay, so even if I do get Affordable Care Act it would cost me 350.00 per month so I get subsidized which comes from the working man which is nothing but a vicious cycle and nobody wines.