Turns out Harry Reid just kind of forced the money into his hands, you see.
“Three senators came up to me just now on the (Senate) floor, and said, ‘Now we understand what you did. We’ll be seeking this funding too‘,” Nelson said.
But the Democratic senator, who has faced a heap of criticism for appearing to trade his vote on health care for millions in federal Medicaid money, said he’s considering asking that the Nebraska deal be stripped from the bill.
Though he defended the exemption as a “fair deal,” he said he never asked for the full federal funding that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ended up granting his state. Nelson said he instead asked that states be allowed to refuse an expansion of Medicaid.
“This is the way Senate leadership chose to handle it. I never asked for 100 percent funding,” he said.
Nelson has maintained that the only reason he even brought up Medicaid was that Nebraska Republican Gov. Dave Heineman put him up to it. READ MORE...
UPDATE- Don't fall out of your chair...but MSNBC reported on this...shocking..VIDEO
Don't get too excited. NBC has a ton of interest in the public option. (See video below)
With 'healthmaginations' and NBC (Neo-Statist Barack Channel) cutting a deal with Obama and his friend and CEO of GE, Jeffrey Immelt, the cap and trade AND the health care bill with the public option has to pass so NBC can rake in billions of your tax dollars...if not, they sink. Let's hope they sink..and Olbermann, Maddow and Matthews can't swim..
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