Comments On: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It by Goldy

Comments On: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It by Goldy http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/03/20/rob-mckenna-subtracts-from-budget-debate-by-adding-to-it Comments On: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It by Goldy en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Thu, 23 May 2013 01:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Re: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It]]> Posted by Just Asking]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:28:36 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It]]> Posted by Just Asking]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:25:29 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It]]>
What actually happened is that the state saved $300 million less than it forecast it would save by switching disabled recipients to managed care, largely because fewer of these recipients actually ended up switching. That's what happened. So McKenna's tweet was total bullshit.
Posted by Goldy]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:14:46 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It]]> Posted by Reverse Polarity]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:37:49 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It]]>
Hi Kinison! Eating it up, aren't you?
Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:02:59 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It]]>

[The] state saw fewer savings than anticipated, not rising costs:
Estimates of Medicaid costs climbed substantially[.] [...] [Anticipated] saving didn’t materialize.

[Emphasis added.]

So Goldy is saying that it's not the case that actual costs increased, but rather that estimated costs increased because savings were lower? I'm not really sure how what Goldy quoted contradicts what McKenna said.
Posted by Ben]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:05:46 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It]]> Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:53:25 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It]]>
@3: none of the allegations against FUSE were necessarily correct but McKenna was pretty consistent with the GOP party line and FUSE is a lefty org so he didn't really need to go further than that to make sense to his friends who all ate it up. V. v. entertaining performance.
Posted by Baconcat]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:49:06 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It]]> Posted by TheRain]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:44:11 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It]]> Posted by Mr. Happy Sunshine]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:11:35 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Rob McKenna Subtracts from Budget Debate by Adding to It]]>
But by all means, continue kicking a dead horse, or consider applying for a job at Gawker, they need every snarky asshole they can get.
Posted by Kinison]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:27:49 -0700 The Stranger