Good Space Policy News From The Health-Care Debate

It’s looking like there’s a good (or at least better — Tucson is a pretty Democrat place) chance that Gabrielle Giffords could lose her seat:

But AHCCCS officials concluded Thursday that the health care overhaul’s so-called “maintenance of effort” requirements require Arizona to keep its Medicaid program at current levels in order to keep getting federal dollars. They said the state will incur $3.8 billion of added costs for its Medicaid population before increased federal funding starts in 2014.

She’s one of three Arizona Dems who voted for it. It would be nice to not only get rid of her as chair of the subcommittee, so she will stop stacking the deck in hearings, but out of the Congress altogether.

4 thoughts on “Good Space Policy News From The Health-Care Debate”

  1. I see nothing but upside, though, if she goes, we’d be losing the prettiest lady in Congress. And I mean legitimately pretty, not simply “pretty, relative to Pelosi.”

  2. Hm. Good point. Also, I’ve seen Michelle Bachman looking good a few times.

    I guess, like the plan for Commercial, we have many different options to choose from should one of these Congresswomen be unable to get our payloads to orbit.

  3. “. . . should one of these Congresswomen be unable to get our payloads to orbit.”

    :choke: :sputter: :cough: !!! A three-pointer, Alex. 🙂

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