Thursday, February 27, 2014

Medicaid Expansion

Man with a Muckrake: "Racism in the Republican Party. Pure and simple. Racism!"

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  1. Ah yes, no other possible explanation like worrying about being able to cover the expansion once the federal free money dries up in a few years in accordance with the law. And it's not like some of the states like Tennessee don't already have their own money-sink programs providing a healthcare safety-net. (Also, money-sink is not intended to suggest that helping the poor isn't worthwhile, just that at least TennCare is not managed worth a damn.)

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  2. So Arkansas and Arizona aren't racist?

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    1. What about Nevada and North Dakota? Or Kentucky?

      You people would be more effective if you didn't shout, RACISM!, at everything. By all means, don't stop.

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  3. Wow! I didn't know that Maine, Wisconsin, Indiana, and half the Louisiana purchase were part of the Confederacy, or that they were hotbeds of Jim Crow legislation.

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  4. Mike, you truly have a sixth sense for detecting racism. You're the Haley Joel Osment of seeing racist where others don't.

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  5. Yeah, you guys are probably right. It's just a coincidence that almost all the former slave states are in gray. There must be another explanation.

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    1. Did you miss the bit about Tennessee in Simon's comment? TennCare already exists. You're the boy who cried racism.

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  6. Wouldn't the group labeled as "considering expanding coverage" really be part of the "Not expanding coverage at this time" group? That would make the map a 50/50 split and show that this is more about states not wanting to be on the hook for paying for this program down the road.

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