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5/19/14, "Indiana’s Gov. Pence taking the Obamacare money and running with it," Washington Post, Dana Milbank
"For the first time since Obamacare split the country in two, the conditions for a cease-fire have begun to appear.
An architect of this detente — although he denies any such
intent — is Mike Pence, who as a conservative Republican congressman in
2010 fought bitterly against the law and who as governor of Indiana
refused to implement it....
“Debates that happen in Washington, D.C., pretty easily get far afield
of the real-world impacts on real people,” he told me in an interview
Monday afternoon. “It will not be enough for new Republican majorities
in the Congress and a Republican president to cut government spending,”
he added, calling instead for money to be sent to the states so they can
“solve the intractable problems.”...
While other GOP governors continue to refuse the Medicaid expansion
money — a decision that inevitably means lost lives — Pence reminds
them, and everyone, that “we’re talking about real people, working
people who deserve a better way.” He made it his administration’s job to
help the “proud Hoosiers” — people “who find themselves essentially,
for all intents and purposes, caught in that gap where their income
simply doesn’t give them the ability to purchase health insurance for
themselves or for their families.”
This, of course, is what
Obamacare is all about. As more conservatives realize that the law they
hate allows them to implement policies they like, they may have trouble
recalling what all the fuss was about." via Drudge
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