{"id":2945,"date":"2009-12-22T11:20:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T18:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2009-12-23T07:49:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T14:49:46","slug":"reid-health-care-plan-helps-nebraska-will-bankrupt-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/reid-health-care-plan-helps-nebraska-will-bankrupt-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid Health Care Plan Helps Nebraska, Will Bankrupt Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Nevada Governor’s Office)<\/em> – Just in time for Christmas, Senator Harry Reid once again plans to put his national political ambitions ahead of Nevada, this time on Christmas Eve. <\/p>\n

Under the guise of \u201cHealth Care Reform,\u201d Senator Reid\u2019s proposal will neither promote good health in Nevada nor reform our current health care system. <\/p>\n

\u201cSenator Reid is wishing Nevadans a Merry Christmas with a smile on his face and a knife in our backs,\u201d Governor Jim Gibbons said, \u201cReid\u2019s Health Care Reform plan will cost Nevada taxpayers more than $613,000,000 in State taxes.\u201d <\/p>\n

Governor Gibbons continued, \u201cNevadans will also pay more than $1.5 billion through increased federal income taxes. This irresponsible legislation will bankrupt the State of Nevada and leave every working Nevada family out in the cold in the New Year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Governor Gibbons also noted that Reid, along with his staff and supporters, are \u201ccooking the books\u201d to ram the health care plan down the throats of Nevadans \u2013 without bipartisan support \u2013 so that Reid may endear himself to President Obama. <\/p>\n

\u201cSenator Reid needs to look at the damage his health care plan will do to Nevada and stop pandering to special interests and his political friends. Reid and his Democrat supporters are playing games with implementation dates and hiding harmful cuts to vulnerable senior citizens, all the while pretending the average taxpayer will not end up holding the bag.\u201d<\/p>\n

As many as 8 in 10 Americans are satisfied with their current health coverage, yet Senator Reid blindly sees this as a mandate for change. His health care proposal will subject Americans to unwanted changes to their health coverage and increase their taxes. Senator Reid is also ignoring the 56% of Nevadans who oppose his national Democratic health care agenda \u2013 a number which grows every day. <\/p>\n

\u201cSenator Reid and his colleagues in Congress should have studied and fixed what\u2019s broken in our Nation\u2019s health care system, rather than forcing devastating cuts that will eliminate choice in our seniors\u2019 Medicare coverage and disrupt the lives of Nevadans who are satisfied with their health care,\u201d Gibbons said. \u201cReid\u2019s plan is shameful and does nothing to increase access for Nevadans to health care. No politician should come between a patient and his or her doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a final insult to Nevadans, Senator Reid this weekend released his final compromise bill language which provides a sizable Christmas gift to the people of Nebraska at the expense of the people of Nevada. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to pander to his fellow Democrats, Senator Reid has granted full funding for Nebraska\u2019s Medicaid expansion in perpetuity while leaving his constituents in Nevada to fend for themselves,\u201d Governor Gibbons said. \u201cHarry Reid is mortgaging the future of Nevadans, our children, and even our grandchildren to pay for this unwanted national health care program. <\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe he should move to Nebraska where he can do less harm to Nevada.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor Gibbons: \u201cIn order to pander to his fellow Democrats, Senator Reid has granted full funding for Nebraska\u2019s Medicaid expansion in perpetuity while leaving his constituents in Nevada to fend for themselves. Maybe he should move to Nebraska where he can do less harm to Nevada.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}