CNN article on how some pastors address the ACA expanson

[MillCreek]

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/08/the-obamacare-question-pastors-shun/?hpt=hp_c2

An interesting article.   I suspect that many of the megachurch pastors don't want to speak on this issue because they fear for their jobs if they offend members of their congregations.

[Balog]

 

When pastors are telling their congregation not to vote for pro-abortion candidates, they should lose their non-profit status. When pastors refuse to offer political commentary supporting Obamacare, they're hypocrits and cowards. My days of not taking CNN seriously about religious issues are certainly coming to a middle.

[vaskidmark]

The coverage gap was created when 25 states refused to accept the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare. The people who fall into this gap make too much money to qualify for Medicaid and not enough to qualify for Obamacare subsidies in their state insurance exchanges. If they lived elsewhere, they would probably get insurance. But because they live in a state that refused the new health care law, they likely will remain among the nation’s uninsured poor after Obamacare coverage kicks in come January.

Glad to know that refusing to increase taxes in order to add new folks to the state's financial burden of Medicaid was the same as "refusing to accept" ACA.

Are there other federal laws/rules/programs a state could refuse to accept?  If so, how does it go about doing that?

stay safe.