Mike Beebe
Mike Beebe
Mickey Dale "Mike" Beebeis an American politician who was the 45th Governor of Arkansas from 2007 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 December 1946
CityAmagon, AR
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I applaud that as a beginning for trying to broaden what I consider to be the problem, and that is broaden the number of folks who have health care coverage available to them.
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It would be better if we got out in front of it, where the court wouldn't have to do it. It would be better if we could anticipate and it would be better where we could provide those opportunities for our young people, so we're not just reacting or responding to a court case.
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We have a Supreme Court justice who said, 'You all have been doing this for 23 years, when are you going to get it right ?' I think that is disingenuous.
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Frankly, that's one thing that may have changed. We've had the luxury of being able to fine-tune some things that might have been rolled out earlier with a primary.
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There have been three major court cases in the last 25 years on this. Each one of those court cases set a different test. The court keeps changing the rules. ... I'm not being critical necessarily of that. Courts can change the rules. Times change, standards change, rules change, tests change, the approaches change.
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It's a never-ending battle that we will continue from year to year. Hopefully it won't be court battles. Hopefully it won't be involved in lawsuits and Supreme Court cases. Hopefully it will be missions and policies that are directed by the electorate of the people.
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What I found is that in all of the major leaps forward that Arkansas has had over the last 20 years ... it's always been a collaboration, a partnership between the private sector and the public sector.
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What we have to do is make sure more people are in that pool of having some opportunity to have some coverage so that we lessen that pressure to increase prices to make up for those losses.
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You can't just abandon the generation you already have in the process.
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This is the kind of research and development we need to be seeking and exploring. Countries like China and India know exactly what they?re going to do 10 years from now. They?re going to take things from us. The challenge for us is to figure out what we?re going to do it 10 years from now that no one else has a clue about.
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As chief law enforcement officer, you can't condone illegality and I don't. You also have the humanitarian approach to realize that a lot of these people are here and trying to contribute economically.
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This is about the issues we face in Poinsett County.
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I think you judge his performance or mine or anyone else's on the totality of what's going on.
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I think you can look at records and you can look at what people have done and you can make your own decisions about whether someone can walk the walk.