House Speaker derails Fallin's plan to save Insure Oklahoma

[brooklynite]

Source: Tulsa World

OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma House Speaker T.W. Shannon pulled the plug Monday on Gov. Mary Fallin's plans to save the Insure Oklahoma program, which provides health care for working poor Oklahomans.

As a result, 9,000 people will lose their subsidized insurance coverage, leading Fallin to challenge Shannon to come up with a better idea.

In a statement released Monday after the cancellation of a House conference committee meeting to consider the Fallin plan, Shannon said, "It is unfortunate these Oklahomans will be without health insurance due to President Obama's policies, despite the guarantees that everyone would be covered.

"This is exactly what happens when government goes into the health-care business. Taxpayers are burdened, and promises to recipients run the risk of being broken."


Read more: http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/House_Speaker_derails_Fallins_plan_to_save_Insure_Oklahoma/20130521_11_A9_CUTLIN717327

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Well, it's not like anyone in Oklahoma will be NEEDING Health Insurance...

[aquart]

1. Wow, that is going to be expensive.

Nothing as short-sighted as a Republican.

[hobbit709]

2. Sooner or later the people that vote for these idiots will wake up.

unfortunately it appears to be later than sooner.

[atreides1]

14. No they won't

Look at the voting pattern...they keep electing heartless scum like this! What's that definition of insanity, again?

[another_liberal]

3. How is this the President's fault?

Please explain how that causation works.

[brooklynite]

4. Obamacare!

Benghazi!

[cstanleytech]

6. You forgot some other details.

Such as

Socialist, Secret Muslim terrorist and the ever popular where is his "real" birth certificate.

[another_liberal]

7. Communists!

You forgot that one too.

[cstanleytech]

9. OH, good catch. nt

[OneAngryDemocrat]

12. "I don't believe providing health insurance is a proper or efficient function of government..."

"I don't believe providing health insurance is a proper or efficient function of government," he said. "As conservatives, we should stand against such desires no matter where they come from, be it local or state government, federal bureaucrats or President Obama himself.

"I have no plans to continue a government-run insurance program that will cost $50 million to serve 9,000 Oklahomans. I simply do not believe it's the government's job," Shannon said.

[rbixby]

13. I guess they don't get that either they provide insurance

or we all end up paying more for OUR insurance because those folks end up in the ER as their primary care.

[another_liberal]

19. "Prayer will heal anything."

"Just hurry off to a church, poor people, and get ye to your praying."

[AndyA]

5. F*ck all of them!

These damned Republicans need to take a hike!

The alternative to government run health care is NO HEALTH CARE. Suffer and die. Too bad if it bankrupts your family, if you lose your house...

None of them can offer any solutions. Of course, THEY have their government health care so why should they be concerned about anyone else? It's not like it's their job or anything.

F*CKERS. Every last one of them.

[cstanleytech]

8. Wait, dont tell me the GOP forgot to send you the memo didnt they?

Ok, just to let you know then since its clearly not your fault, the "Suffer and die. Too bad if it bankrupts your family, if you lose your house..." is the Republican healthcare plan for america.

[another_liberal]

10. Touche!

"That's a hit, a palpable hit!"

[GeorgeGist]

11. Its unfortunate that Oklahomans continue to elect Republicans.

[Myrina]

15. I suspect that may change in the next 72 hours ...

Sad that it's going to take something like a massive tornado to get the ReThugs to think like human beings.

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

16. Vote the bums out!

You want to live like a republican? Vote democratic!

[mtasselin]

17. wake up

This is another right to work for less state, at what time in these peoples lives will they wake up and realize their republican representatives are not doing what is best for the common good, only what is good for them.

[geek tragedy]

18. Oklahomans vote for pols who don't care about Oklahomans.

When it comes to cruelty and a lack of basic human decency, the voters of Oklahoma just can't get enough.

[Dustlawyer]

20. You go Mike Shelton! We need Medicare for all! We could cut more than enough out of the military

budget alone to provide health care for all, reduce the deficit, and still be the biggest kid on the block militarily! The problem is that the military needs all of those expensive, fancy golf courses, bloated number of Generals with their huge staff and outrageous perks! It needs to pay all of these private contractors huge sums so they can afford to wine, dine, and treat the top brass and politicians who got them he contracts! When will they go "too far!" By the time we get off of our asses it will be too late!