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

[sabrina 1]

58. Are you kidding me? Of COURSE I knew how Medicaid has worked for the past couple of decades

It was one of the reasons I got involved in politics to begin with. It was one of my main FIGHTS with right wingers, who were supporting the lowering of the standard for people who would be dependent on it when they got sick.

I DIDN'T WRITE THIS BILL. Those who did, SHOULD have known all of this. Everyone KNOWS how Medicaid has been under attack for at least two decades and I personally know people who could not get it even in BLUE STATES, like NY, because if they earned, GET THIS, more than $200 a month they were TOO RICH.

Don't tell me what I know about Medicaid. It's too bad the authors of this Bill didn't know about it. Well I have to assume that.

Otoh, the Private Ins Corps actually wrote the bill and we can be sure they did THEIR homework.

We need a National HC System and that is what the response from Dems should be now. 'See, we told you, Republicans have pushing for this kind of Health Insurance 'marketplace' for years. Well, we gave it to them now you see why Dems ALWAYS opposed it. Now, let's get HC for ALL Americans'.

And the public would applaud. But the Ins Corps would not and that is who matters here as we all know. It always was.