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Mountain Mule

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27. As a medicaid recipient, I'll go for it!

Reply to KingCharlemagne (Reply #6)

Sat May 6, 2017, 12:40 PM

May 2017

What a great way to push back at the Repugs and Paul Ryan, never mind Dolt 45. Unfortunately, many of the people whose income is so low that they qualify for Medicaid actually are a part of 45's core. The Repugs are saying that these Red State folks with chronic health conditions should just move to the Blue States to get medical care. This is one instance where I am fresh out of sympathy for 45's voters. The thought of them moving to my own Blue State of Colorado with its relatively enlightened healthcare system brings me no joy. Our budget is limited and can not expand outward to infinity to take care of "medical refugees" - especially those who voted to have no healthcare because they wanted to make a racist statement of hate by voting for 45, and healthcare be damned.

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