RICHMOND, Va. – For those who want to take a break from the Shockoe Stadium shocker, here is a different kind of shocker: A bipartisan solution, meeting all the objectives of both the VA GOP and the VA Democrats, to avoid a possible government shutdown due to a budget deadlock.
The Washington Post has picked it up.
I have received a lot of interest from top experts where policy and politics intersect for the good of the Commonwealth.
“This produces the bipartisan agreement both parties claim they want. Republicans achieve their objective: Virginia Medicaid doesn’t expand to spend money in the future on anyone not currently eligible for the program. This meets the common-sense definition of ‘expansion’ used by a Virginia taxpayer: Learn how to manage the program within current parameters.
Democrats achieve their objective: Pilotcare.com provides the care they want to deliver to those 400,000 needy Virginians without any new state money. McAuliffe says he can do it with the federal government’s promised backing. We believe he can.”
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