Statehouse Alert: Do They Seriously Think We’re Not Watching?
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By Emily Geiger
What the hell is wrong with the Democrats? Iowa House Speaker (and Union Thug) Pat Murphy of Dubuque is now using his position to work out his personal vendettas.
You know how we always hear about how Iowa hospitals are way at the bottom of the rankings for Medicaid reimbursements? Well, the legislature tried to do something about that this year. Apparently, if the state were to give a little more money, the feds would give a lot more.
But here’s the catch. Because of the way the Dems at the statehouse wrote this bill, one particular hospital will be excluded from getting any additional money. That one hospital is Finley Hospital in Dubuque, the home district for the aforementioned Union Thug. And, it also happens that Finley employs Union Thug’s wife. Finley recently was in a heated dispute with the Services Employees International Union, of which Union Thug’s wife is apparently a member. At the time the dispute was going on, Union Thug himself called for the resignation of various Finley Hospital administrators.
Nobody resigned or lost their job, so now it looks like Thug Murphy is going to take his pound of flesh out of the hospital’s finances instead. The kicker is that the Dems didn’t even bother to check with feds to see if their twisted plan is legal. If the feds determine it isn’t (which seems fairly likely), that means ALL Iowa hospitals could lose their federal funding.
The stupid part of this whole thing is that Murphy is only hurting the people he’s supposed to represent. What doctor is going to want to go practice in Dubuque if he’s only going to get paid less than half of what his services are worth? Further, I’m guessing that more doctors are probably just going to refuse to treat Dubuque’s Medicaid patients altogether.
This is what we get from the Dems: vengeful, spiteful, egotistical, self-centered, power-abusive, childish behavior. All while the lowly little constituents suffer.
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totally sucks