Who’d Have Imagined It?
2010-01-05 - by
In 2008 while running for Governor, Bev Perdue said:
Then, this year, she put a lobbyist in charge of health care, gave him the green light to spend $250 million to pass out no bid contracts (many to his former clients), then gave him her blessing to cut health care to thousands of Medicaid patients – which didn’t sit too well with the Obama Administration which, last week, joined a lawsuit to stop the Governor’s Medicaid cuts.
Now, I expect, if you asked Governor Perdue to explain why her views on health care changed from moral to practical, she’d say, Well, there’s no money. But that’s a bit perplexing. Because after the Governor raised taxes a billion dollars state spending actually went up this year compared to last year – so why does the Department of Health and Human Services need to cut its budget $1.7 billion? If DHHS is broke – what happened to the money?
All this must be even more puzzling to Gov. Perdue’s Democratic friends – a year after Democrats won their first Presidential election in North Carolina in 34 years we have the new Democratic President suing the new Democratic Governor – for denying patients health care.
Who’d have imagined it?
Who’d Have Imagined It?
2010-01-05/
In 2008 while running for Governor, Bev Perdue said:
Then, this year, she put a lobbyist in charge of health care, gave him the green light to spend $250 million to pass out no bid contracts (many to his former clients), then gave him her blessing to cut health care to thousands of Medicaid patients – which didn’t sit too well with the Obama Administration which, last week, joined a lawsuit to stop the Governor’s Medicaid cuts.
Now, I expect, if you asked Governor Perdue to explain why her views on health care changed from moral to practical, she’d say, Well, there’s no money. But that’s a bit perplexing. Because after the Governor raised taxes a billion dollars state spending actually went up this year compared to last year – so why does the Department of Health and Human Services need to cut its budget $1.7 billion? If DHHS is broke – what happened to the money?
All this must be even more puzzling to Gov. Perdue’s Democratic friends – a year after Democrats won their first Presidential election in North Carolina in 34 years we have the new Democratic President suing the new Democratic Governor – for denying patients health care.
Who’d have imagined it?