Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) really, really doesn’t want you to call it “Obamacare.”
Before the Arizona House of Representatives approved Brewer’s plan to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act early Thursday morning, her office blasted an email to local journalists insisting that the Republican’s plan was most certainly not a part of the law branded by conservatives as “Obamacare.”
“Arizona’s Medicaid program, known as AHCCCS, has existed for three decades … going back to President Obama’s college days,” Brewer’s spokesman Matthew Benson wrote. “AHCCCS is not the Affordable Care Act. It is not ObamaCare.”
The email included an attached document (shown below) that detailed what the governor’s office said are the differences between AHCCCS and the new federal health care law.
But the Medicaid expansion being pushed by Brewer was in fact a provision of the Affordable Care Act, the implementation of which is left up to individual states after last summer’s Supreme Court ruling on the law.
ObamaCare vs Governor’s Medicaid Restoration Plan
