Republicans feel like they have to write tax cut legislation masquerading as health care in secret. So it should be no surprise that Republican Governor Sandoval of Nevada took the cowards way out and vetoed Medicaid for All legislation that had attracted national attention on this late Friday evening, apparently insuring that not even the stalwarts at Daily Kos noticed and diaried it until multiple hours later.
Oh yeah, he also vetoed climate legislation. Who could have predicted?
Gov. Brian Sandoval scuttled a plan that would have allowed anyone in the state to buy into a Medicaid-like system of health insurance that had attracted national attention as the first of its kind.
With the stroke of his pen, the governor also vetoed an ambitious measure that would have raised the state’s renewable energy production standards, just hours before a constitutionally-set deadline where all unsigned bills automatically become law. Sandoval vetoed a total of 41 bills throughout and after the legislative session, the highest in his seven years as governor.
The irony is that Sandoval had just sent a letter to Mitch McConnell opposing the AHCA’s Medicaid cuts.
Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval and a group of bipartisan governors said the AHCA health care bill proposed by Congressional Republicans could jeopardize coverage for the most vulnerable citizens and puts the burden of health care costs on the states in a letter to Senate leadership Friday.
The seven governors wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., stressing that they believe Congress should prioritize improving health care in the United States, including controlling costs and stabilizing the market for millions of Americans who grapple with mental illness, chronic health problems and drug addiction. But they said the plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act passed by the House in May “does not meet these challenges.”
Yet he couldn’t bring himself to do something constructive for his state — all he could do is write a letter that Republican Senators will laugh at as they compete to see who can cut Medicaid funding the most to provide the biggest tax cuts for the one percent.