 ccrp poll obamacare medicaid expansion   you can now comment on stories and polls let us know how you feel about the issues new poll overview the medicaid expansion bill that is a critical component of obamacare implementation was heavily revised by a republicanled michigan house committee on tuesday june 11 2013 essentially stripping away key reforms that gop legislators had previously insisted on the republicans voting to adopt the watereddown substitute were reps kevin cotter rmount pleasant ray franz ronekama frank foster rpetoskey ken goike rray township gail haines rlake angelus dan lauwers rbrockway township tom leonard dewitt township dave pagel rberrien springs mike shirkey rclark lake and ken yonker rcaledonia the bill could considered by the full house as early as wednesday june 13 and possibly voted on this week or next week many of these same republicans who had boasted of the reforms earlier have now essentially voted to strip them from the bill in the previous version of the bill the expansion was conditional upon the federal government allowing a package of substantive reforms including a fouryear medicaid benefit cap and a trigger that would rescind the expansion if federal funding dropped below 100 percent the committee members were reminded by jack mchugh senior legislative analyst at the mackinac center for public policy that back in the districts many of you have told constituents you think obamacare is a bad law that should be repealed yet here you are on the threshold of a vote that will further entrench the law at the very moment when it is becoming highly vulnerable to a serious course correction scott hagerstrom michigan state director of americans for prosperity said medicaid expansion would be the largest expansion of state government in nearly 45 years drew gonshorowski a policy analyst for the heritage foundation said future funding for the expansion will be via more taxes and borrowing the medicaid expansion in the long run will cost the state of michigan he said democrats who voted yes were reps paul clemente dlincoln park andy schor dlansing harvey santana ddetroit and kate segal dbattle creek rep jim townsend droyal oak chose not to vote new poll question should the michigan house pass the watereddown medicaid expansion bill as part of the obamacare implementation yes no undecided to vote in this poll click on this link http wwwclintoncountygoporg content shouldmichiganhousepasswatereddown e2809cmedicaidexpansion e2809dbillpartobamacareimplementat  to enter your comments click on add new comment after you vote previous poll question should the the legislature pass a bill allowing for red light cameras by local governments to ticket violators in michigan yes 17 no 83 undecided 0 one comment was made on this poll question cameras all of the cameras public private etc can be made to be able to be operated by one operator for example the police the feds etc so that they can see it all and this is already true in some large cities and of course there are the drones did you see the video on what a drone can see a bird from 17500 feet perhaps we have enough cameras and that is only one reason why we don t need the red light cameras it is a mistake to think of all the various cameras as separate and unrelated to each other   all emails addresses  