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Iowa Medicaid Alternative Earns Bipartisan Support from Local Legislators: Iowa City Daily News Links, June 11
ALSO: A community gathers to honor Kathelynn Shepard, Miss Iowa vows to help the disabled, and opponents of the Chauncey try Plan B.
On to the Links!
Tara Bannow of the Iowa City Press-Citizen covered a legislative forum on Monday and found, shock egads, bipartisan agreement had been reached on health care legislation.
You see, Iowa City isn't the only local school district that has controversy. (Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Opponents of the Chauncey are trying something else, filing an appeal in Johnson County court Monday appealing the Iowa City Council's decision not to rezone the land to prevent the Chauncey from being built. (the Gazette)
A former Iowa City insurance agent who was involved in a grisly killing in 1979 was one of those who did not receive a commutation of his sentence. (the Gazette)
Gov. Branstad said in light of Kathlynn Shepard's death it would be appropriate to review sentencing provisions. (Des Moines Register)
Meanwhile, with her identity confirmed, the community of Dayton came together honor Kathlynn Shepard. (Iowa City Press-Citizen via Des Moines Register)
Branstad chose not to commute the sentences of seven felons who had applied. (Des Moines Register)
Miss Iowa, a Keokuk native who was born without a left forearm, has vowed to use her own life experiences be an advocate for the disabled. (the Press-Citizen via Associated Press)
Here's a statewide food drive you can take part in. (the Des Moines Register)
Daily Links Excerpt of the Day
Rep. Mary Mascher, D-Iowa City, said that had the state not accepted federal funding for Medicaid, the cost would have been passed onto counties and would have further burdened major hospitals such as University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
“For him to move off that dime was an enormous accomplishment,” she said, “and to be able to cover as many people as we’re going to be able to cover with this plan is phenomenal.”
The plan, which expands coverage to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, will cover about 150,000 adult Iowans, explained Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City. People between zero and 100 percent of the FPL will go straight into the Medicaid expansion, he said, and those between 101 percent and 138 percent will receive a subsidy to buy a private policy off of a health insurance exchange.
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