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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGovernor Tom Corbett (R): Pregnant Women, Breast Cancer Patients Are Free Health Care Moochers
Pennsylvania Republicans have decided against expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, arguing that covering more low-income residents would cost the state too much money. But last week, Gov. Tom Corbett (R) went a step further, telling a local news station that poor residents who are already enrolled in the program, including pregnant women and breast cancer patients, are receiving too much free care and should pay into the system.
What I hear all the time coming out of the administration in Washington is that its the working poor [who benefit from Medicaid], Corbett told WTAE, a local ABC affiliate, on Saturday. Yes it is working, but you should be investing five, ten dollars in co-pay to understand that you go to to the hospital or the doctors, you just cant keep going and going and going and think everything is going to be covered. You have to know that you have some interest in whats going on.
Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/07/09/2270331/governor-thinks-pregnant-women-breast-cancer-patients-should-pay-more-for-health-care/
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Water for residents of Dimock, PA. He took apart the $12 million deal to get clean water from the public system out in the country where water well residents' wells were poisoned by Cabot Oil and others through fracking. Cabot was supposed to pay for the new water lines.
But before we make those pesky pregnant women pay for more of their healthcare, we need to close more abortion clinics, right? Even if they offer contraception.
I hate Republicans like Corbett.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)-The right-wing loonies are busily working to eliminate abortion and birth control.
- Some of them are saying rape can't cause pregnancy, which is lunacy.
- Others say rape-created pregnancies are gifts from their god.
- But if women get pregnant and need help, they are now considered MOOCHERS.
Are we somehow supposed to believe that only wealthy women are allowed to have babies? And that poor women and their babies are out of luck?
Corbett and his fellow lunatics can't be allowed to have their way.