Medicaid, education steal show at forum
The proposed Medicaid expansion would offer coverage to as many as 62,000
Following a successful signature-gathering campaign, the item will appear on
Regarding Medicaid expansion, the lone voice of dissent belonged to incumbent Senator
Foreman called for a "paradigm shift" in the way
"Medicaid allows people to continue to make poor health choices -- access to health care is not enough. We need people to make lifestyle changes," Foreman said.
Foreman's Democratic opponent,
"I'm in the Legislature, and if you think I'm going to just sit down my hands and let all this money flow past my desk -- I'd be abdicating my authority and my position as a senator," Foreman said. "If they want funding for this, you the people have decided that the Legislature lets those funds go -- this will never fly as written."
State Rep.
While she said she has never endorsed Medicaid expansion, she said a solution for closing the gap has her full and unwavering support.
"I have to say that the
Sorensen related a personal story about her late husband who put off going to the doctor to examine a blemish on his back. The mark was a metastatic melanoma -- an aggressive form of skin cancer. He died at 58, Sorensen said.
"I don't want people in this state to be afraid to go to the doctor where early detection and early intervention could save their lives," Sorensen said.
Republican Candidate for State Representative
When questions were posed regarding funding for higher education, Foreman was, again, the sole dissenter. While nearly every other candidate voiced varying degrees of support for higher education and specifically the
"No. 1: Trim the fat out of your budget, because if you want to get it past this senator, it's not going to fly with that. And then secondly: Stop pushing the political agenda," Foreman said.
Foreman continued, listing the ways he would help the UI specifically, saying he would give them "a better entering student."
"I would get the illegal drugs out of our schools. No. 2, I would get the deadbeat students and the deadbeat parents out -- they can go to alternative schools if they want to disrupt and they don't want to really learn," Foreman said. "We need discipline without fear of lawsuits and more support for our teachers and administrators."
Some candidates disagreed with Foreman's assessment that UI had too much frivolous spending. Nelson pointed out that UI's revenues have yet to recover to pre-recession levels, and Republican candidate for State Representative
"For five years, I was on the
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