A review of records has found that Republican
governors Scott Walker (WI), Bobby Jindal (LA), Rick Perry (TX), and
Chris Christie (NJ) took $400 million in federal health care money for
their states while opposing the Affordable Care Act.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 show.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.
These governors are each trying to run for president
based on in part publicly opposing the Affordable Care Act, but
privately they are hypocritically gobbling up millions of federal
dollars to fund the law that they have sworn to destroy. The behavior of
the governors illustrates that Obamacare has become a buzzword for
rallying Republican voters, but the reality is that repealing the ACA
would cause absolute chaos at multiple levels of government.
Walker, Perry, Jindal, and Christie all claim that
they hate the healthcare law, but that hatred hasn’t stopped them from
putting their hands out and taking hundreds of millions of federal
dollars. The key is that the governors were not forced to take the
money. They had to apply for the funds. It wasn’t a mistake that they
took the loot. Walker and the others intentionally asked for it.
The last two Republican presidential primary
contests have quickly devolved into who hissy fights over who is the
most conservative candidate. It is going to be difficult for the
Obamacare hypocrite governors to wear the crown of real conservative
while they were mooching hundreds of millions of dollars in Obamacare
cash.
Republicans hate Obamacare, but not as much as they love free money.
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