 ccrp poll governor snyder s proposed medicaid expansion through the affordable health care act poll overview a huge expansion of the medicaid program that would increase eligibility to those with incomes below 133 percent of the poverty level was enacted as part of obamacare and then made optional for states by last june s supreme court ruling on the law since that ruling governors and legislatures have been wrestling with whether to go along with the expansion at the end of 2012 13 state governors were known to oppose expanding the program in their states another 18 governors supported it and 20 were undecided the most common reasons cited by governors who opposed or were unsure about committing their states to the expansion were the federal government would not come through on the funding concerns about the impact on state budget states need more flexibility freedom from federal oversight states would have to raise taxes to pay for it uncertainty need more information medicaid is a ldquo broken program rdquo harms its beneficiaries entitlement programs create more dependency in july of 2012 the michigan house fiscal agency published a memo suggesting this state would save money if it accepts the expansion because we could redistribute some costs from state taxpayers to national taxpayers including 175 million currently spent on mental health services that conclusion depended on several questionable assumptions the main one being that the feds will actually come through with the extra money promised as part of the expansion the governors were concerned that the federal government won t uphold their end of the agreement that money would come to the states because president obama has already signaled that the extra money may not be forthcoming he did so in both his 2012 and 2013 budget recommendations proposing a shift to a single medicaid blended rate for each state which essentially means shifting the costs to the states hellip governor snyder has already indicated that he is in favor of expanding medicaid services as part of the affordable health care act new poll question are you in favor of the legislature passing legislation that would expand the medicaid coverage as part of obamacare yes no undecided to vote in this poll click on this link  http wwwclintoncountygoporg content areyoufavorlegislaturepassinglegislationwouldexpan  to enter your comments click on add new comment after you vote previous poll question are you in favor of the boy scouts dropping their restriction that gay boys and adults can t be part of the organization yes 18 no 82 undecided 0 there were three comments made on the poll comment 1 gay scout leaders this is a totally bad idea we will be reading and hearing soon about abuse of boys if this is allowed please boy scouts do not be bullied yes i said it bullied into making this very bad decision comment 2 scouting the boy scouts are what the boy scouts are they are a private organization not government even the boy scouts have a constitutional liberty right of association and constitutional liberty right of religious principles if someone wishes to start up a special scoutinglike group for gay boys or for lgbt youth that s fine and within their constitutional liberty right of association and i would applaud them for doing so this is what is great about america there s room for all and we don t have to act like bullies saying that the boy scouts or christian groupsor republican groups have to change but other groups don t have to change including any muslim group the naacp the various ethnic or gender clubs or caucuses within the national and each state s democrat party the log cabin republicans or the stonewall democrats the national lesbian and gay journalists association queer youth alliance scouting for all lbgt youth scotland or the myriad of lgbt groups easily found in the this listing on wikipedia http enwikipediaorg wiki listoflgbtrelatedorganizations lighten up folks comment 3 keep in mind that the market keep in mind that the market will determine what happens with the boy scouts it looks like they are doomed first sports now gays   all emails addresses  