{"id":107,"date":"2017-08-17T11:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T15:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/?p=107"},"modified":"2023-06-07T20:39:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T00:39:55","slug":"nh-house-freedom-caucus-comments-regarding-bombshell-obamacare-medicaid-expansion-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/2017\/08\/17\/nh-house-freedom-caucus-comments-regarding-bombshell-obamacare-medicaid-expansion-report\/","title":{"rendered":"NH House Freedom Caucus Comments Regarding Bombshell Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For Immediate Release- August 17, 2017<br \/>\nContact: Representative JR Hoell (603) 315-9002<\/p>\n<p>NH House Freedom Caucus Comments Regarding<br \/>\nBombshell Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Concord \u2013 The New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus (NHHFC) offered the following comments in response to the bombshell revelation in today New Hampshire Union Leader that former Governor Maggie Hassan knew about the dubious Obamacare Medicaid expansion scheme, but said nothing about the threat to state taxpayers during her 2016 U.S. Senate campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears, that as Governor, Maggie Hassan put her personal aspirations ahead of the state when she chose to hide her scheme to pass off an illegal Medicaid expansion setup just long enough to get her through the election last year.  Now, we\u2019re learning that she has put the taxpayers of the state in substantial jeopardy in order to advance Obamacare and her career, in addition to asking the taxpayers to foot the bill for lobbying efforts for this illegal scheme\u201d stated Rep. Hoell. (R-Dunbarton)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObamacare Medicaid expansion just keeps getting worse and worse for New Hampshire.  Last month we learned that it is ruining the state\u2019s individual market, making it unaffordable for people to buy health insurance.  Today we are learning that New Hampshire taxpayer have always been at risk by the fishy plan to have hospitals pay the state share of expansion.  It\u2019s time for this failing experiment to end,\u201d added Rep. Osborne(R-Aubrun).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Freedom Caucus has consistently opposed expanding Obamacare in New Hampshire, largely because we knew that problems would mount and there was never going to be a free lunch.  Today\u2019s revelation of just how much danger the last version of Medicaid expansion has put the taxpayers makes the decision to oppose continuing this program even easier.  Like all of Obamacare, this program needs to quickly move into the ashbin of history as one more failed attempt at socialized medicine,\u201d concluded Rep. Hill(Northfield).<\/p>\n<p>The New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus is a grassroots organization consisting of legislators and private citizens, who believe in personal liberty and the traditional conservative \u201cYankee\u201d values that made New Hampshire a great place to live.<br \/>\n###<\/p>\n<p><em>The New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus is a grassroots organization consisting of legislators and private citizens, who believe in personal liberty and the traditional conservative \u201cYankee\u201d values that made New Hampshire a great place to live.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate Release- August 17, 2017 Contact: Representative JR Hoell (603) 315-9002 NH House Freedom Caucus Comments Regarding Bombshell Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Report Concord \u2013 The New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus (NHHFC) offered the following comments in response to the bombshell revelation in today New Hampshire Union Leader that former Governor Maggie Hassan knew about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}