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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Fri Apr 23, 2010 at 16:02:08 PM MST
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Our junior Congressman continues to inspire mild agitation, using his government email list to write inanities best left for Tea Party listservs. The latest:The health reform bill that I voted against included $5 billion for a temporary high risk pool for people with preexisting conditions. That money was supposed to last through the 2014. But this money is expected to run out by 2012. Congressman Rehberg links to a video of him declaring that the temporary high-risk pools in the health care bill are going to run out of funds in 2012. When Secretary Sebelius repeatedly responds that it is too early to know where expenditures will come in because the pools are optional programs for states. A (very) cursory Google News search on this topic reveals that Georgia currently doesn't plan on using funds and Texas is currently undecided.
Meanwhile, an attempt to verify Congressman Rehberg's claims results in one story...in the Clark Fork Chronicle...with a byline from...Jed Link, Rehberg's communications staffer.
Hmmmmmmm.....
Regardless, I don't think any of us are eager about there being a shortfall in those funds, but it does seem like it would be hard to know if the shortfall will happen before it is clear how many states are going to use them. And I'm not sure that we'd be better off eliminating high risk pools.
But forget about that. I'm just curious what Rehberg has done in the past ten years about the deficit other than basically create it by voting for tax cuts for rich people (or, as Rehberg calls them, his peers), two wars, or an unfunded prescription drug benefit. |
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