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Republican White House Hopefuls Attack Obamacare But Take Money
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Republican White House Hopefuls Attack Obamacare But Take Money
By Andy Sullivan
Reuters
Posted: 04/01/2015 9:38 am EDT
Updated: 04/01/2015 9:59 am EDT
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/01/republicans-obamacare_n_6984416.html
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WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - Several Republican governors likely to run
for president have secured hundreds millions of dollars under Obamacare
while working to dismantle the healthcare law, according to a Reuters
review of federal spending records.
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Governors Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Bobby
Jindal of Louisiana and former Texas Governor Rick Perry, all staunch
opponents of President Barack Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act, have
collectively applied for and won at least $352 million through grant
programs set up by the law, federal records
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The action is at odds with the public stance of all four potential
candidates, who have blasted the law as an unprecedented expansion of
government and called for its repeal.
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Aides told Reuters they saw no contradiction in applying for these grants
while criticizing the law as a whole.
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"It's critically important that we continue these services for our
citizens," said Walker spokeswoman Laurel Patrick. "Receiving federal
grants that existed prior to the ACA is not the same as participating in
the core elements of the ACA."
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The money in question stems from less controversial parts of the law that
enhance public health and other nuts-and-bolts programs, rather than the
insurance exchanges and expansion of the Medicaid program for the poor
that have drawn fierce opposition from Republicans.
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Some of these programs were established by Obamacare, while others had
existed in other forms and were expanded by the law. (Graphic:
http://reut.rs/1FewtGN)
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Republicans have been united in their opposition to the healthcare reform
since it passed Congress with only Democratic votes five years ago, and
many potential presidential candidates are eager to demonstrate their
anti-Obamacare bona fides.
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Walker has called the law an "abysmal failure" and Perry has blasted it as
an "abomination." Christie called it a "failure" and Jindal told a
gathering of conservative activists in February that "we must repeal every
single word of Obamacare."
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Walker, Perry and Jindal also supported a legal challenge that fell short
of striking down the law in 2012 but enabled states to opt out of the
Medicaid expansion.
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Still, Republican governors have to balance their opposition to the law
with their obligation to look after the needs of their states.
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The federal government accounts for nearly one in three dollars of state
revenue, and the Affordable Care Act has been an important source of much
of that money in recent years. It provides $10 billion for public health
and $425 million to train nurses and other health-care workers.
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The money isn't handed out automatically: state governments, hospitals and
other organizations have to apply for it.
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"There's a lot of hypocrisy when it comes to some Republicans and
Obamacare," said Greg Valliere, a nonpartisan political adviser to Wall
Street clients. "As my father used to say: 'Do as I say, not as I do.'"
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