Stunning map of states refusing Medicaid expansion. 5 million hurt. TPM

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9. I dunno about evil, but the seem to be deep into Calvinism

The legislature, in fit of white backlash, feels you're poor because you are a lazy taker or because God takes care of "his own". He obviously didn't pick the poor to be on his team.

Their plan is to not challenge the order established by God but to do God's work on earth. That work being making the unelected suffer.

Consistent with their antiestablishment approach, the 'free-reiners' in Madison not only didn't expand medicaid, they -cut- medicaid.

As it stands, the grapevine says Walker is working on a plan that will put in place qualification based onerous means tests for any state funded assistance for insurance. It seems their view is for a poor person to have assistance with insurance that would protect a family from 'losing it all' that family must first have lost it all.