Christie eyes lower income limit for Medicaid eligibility

Source: Philadelphia Daily News.

Christie eyes lower income limit for Medicaid eligibility

By Matt Katz and Maya Rao

Inquirer Trenton Bureau
Gov. Christie plans to seek approval for a proposal that would deny Medicaid coverage to adults in a family of four with an annual household income of little more than $6,000, down from the current $30,000.

A single mother raising three children who earned as little as $118 a week would not qualify for the government-funded medical coverage.

The eligibility-requirement change, which must be cleared by the Obama administration and would apply only to new adult Medicaid applicants, would follow Christie's eliminating - for the second year - a long-standing line item that would provide nearly $7.5 million in funding to family-planning clinics.

A 26-13 vote to restore the aid was passed in the state Senate on Monday, but was one vote short of a veto-proof majority.

The measure, which received some GOP support, also would require the state to expand Medicaid coverage for family planning and women's health care for the poor. It would be eligible for $9 in federal money for every $1 invested by the state. Christie has vetoed similar proposals in the past.


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And he wonders why his ratings are falling.

I live in NJ and have my own health insurance. It covers nothing and costs me about $500 a month. It will at least get me in the door of a decent hospital but that's about it.

He needs to get sick and get no medical care and that's not going to happen. That's the point...rich folk don't care!

must be Pod People or maybe Cylons. Their behavior has been so reckless and defiant, as if there will be no political consequences. Very disturbing.

They have more money than God, they own all the media, and they can rig the elections to stay in power.
What sort of political consequences could they possibly have to worry about?

like they know something we don't and are laughing behind closed doors. They've clearly made a deal with the devil and they have to deliver.

We've had outrageous politicians before, but I've never seen so many of them acting in sync with one another nationwide, in a very obvious manner. It almost feels like a pending coup.

"We are one."

all that hurt the struggling.

:sarcasm:

Surely they can get one more vote!


Like I said in another thread, raising taxes like 3¢ would solve a myriad of "problems".

Gets the point across much more clearly that this is a bad thing.

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Fancy cars and food stamps... vacations and free health care... What a total shitload the repubs are.

I just hope he gets a dose of his own medicine one day

and reduce their platform to its essence: if you are not rich, we reserve the right to kill you and make crackers out of you.

That he is the guy they are pushing to run.

He's severely limiting access to reproductive medicine to poor women here and then when they DO have the children . . . he wants to throw him under the bus.

Ahem - Don't blame me - I didn't vote for this ass clown. My neigbors did.