Tag: Maine

My Time at Walmart: Why We Need Serious Welfare Reform – The College Conservative

~ Pharmer

My Time at Walmart: Why We Need Serious Welfare Reform – The College Conservative.

Christine Rousselle worked as a cashier for Walmart, in Scarborough, Maine,  for a couple of summers and gives first hand witness of massive welfare fraud and abuse.

Lifting one of her examples of said abuse:  ” b) People using TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) money to buy such necessities such as earrings, kitkat bars, beer, WWE figurines, and, my personal favorite, a slip n’ slide. TANF money does not have restrictions like food stamps on what can be bought with it.”

 

Maine gets break in federal health care overhaul – CNBC

~ Pharmer

Maine gets break in federal health care overhaul – CNBC.

Another Obamacare waiver for the whole state of Maine!   This will be a three year reprieve from the requirement that insurers spend “80 to 85 cents of every premium dollar on medical care and quality improvement”.  It includes a review in two years.

This was provided in the face of the threat that MEGA Life and Health Insurance, which provides 37 percent of the states  insurance for individuals would withdraw entirely from the market.

The plan for Obamacare had been that insurance companies could survive until the the government had organized sufficiently to take on the single payer system.    This is obviously not working.