GOP states move to cut Medicaid

[workinclasszero]

GOP states move to cut Medicaid
BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL AND RACHEL ROUBEIN - 08/03/17 06:00 AM EDT

Republican governors are working with the Trump administration to do something Congress couldn’t accomplish: fundamentally alter their state Medicaid programs.

At least six states with GOP governors— Arkansas, Kentucky, Arizona, Maine, Wisconsin and Indiana — have already drafted plans meant to introduce new rules people would have to meet to be eligible for Medicaid, which provides healthcare to low-income Americans and those with certain disabilities.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/345053-gop-states-move-to-cut-medicaid

[kerry-is-my-prez]

1. Too scared to touch elderly swing state Florida, hopefully. Would be suicidal.

[workinclasszero]

2. The democratic party can take back control of the government on this issue alone I think

If they get behind single payer anyway.

[benld74]

3. GOP has NO SOUL

[workinclasszero]

4. They sold their souls to this guy

a long time ago.

Evil bastards.

[loyalsister]

5. Missouri made brutal cuts

He made cuts to in-home care AND nursing homes.

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens will withhold $251 million in spending to make Missouri’s budget work, and he vetoed a bill meant to prevent budget cuts to in-home care for elderly and disabled Missourians.

Greitens announced late Friday, the last day of the fiscal year, that he had signed Missouri’s $27 billion budget and had vetoed the bill that was meant to prevent cuts to in-home and nursing home care for 8,000 disabled or elderly Missourians.

Greitens will also reduce the reimbursement rate for Medicaid providers by 1.5 percent to save $12 million, and he will hold onto $60 million earmarked for the Department of Social Services, the agency that oversees Medicaid.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article159167244.html

[workinclasszero]

6. Well I hope those elderly Missouri voters enjoy all the republicans

they put in charge of their lives.

Maybe shit will change in this damned redstate hell after this republican attack against the old, sick and poor goes through.

[loyalsister]

7. Really?

Is it seriously that satisfying to bash people whose quality of life is going to be destroyed if they don't die first under these cuts just to get a dig in on Trump voters?

[workinclasszero]

9. Excuse me?

I live here. A tiny little blue island in a vast sea of racist red republicans. I see and hear their lies and hate 24/7/365.

They put these punks in charge and I hope they choke on it!

F**K them all!!!! The damn democrats need to grow a spine and start fighting fire with fire against these anti american thugs before its too late IMHO.

If that makes me a bad guy, so be it!

I mean the NAACP issued its first statewide travel advisory, for Missouri for God's sake!!!

NAACP issues its first statewide travel advisory, for Missouri
By Nancy Coleman, CNN
Updated 12:11 PM ET, Thu August 3, 2017

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/02/us/naacp-missouri-travel-advisory-trnd/index.html

Thats the people you seem to be so concerned about. Damn.

[loyalsister]

12. I personally know people who will be affected

One or maybe even more voted for Trump. None of them deserve what is going to happen to them OR the spite and hate you are spreading.

[workinclasszero]

13. So do I

My wife and I for two.

Excuse me if I shed no tears for the assholes who voted in our executioners.

[loyalsister]

14. The most destructive thing about Trump

is that his hateful mindset has been so contagious that we may never recover.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. This is Wisconsin's new scam.

Heard this same POS last week from a Assemblyman.

[workinclasszero]

10. Evil bastards

Trillions for bombs, war and the 1% and ZERO for everybody else!

[Wellstone ruled]

15. What is worse is,the Guy was so proud of this Idea.

Here is the kicker,this Guy would not have a damn thing today if it was not for Wisconsin's Social Welfare laws of the 1980's. Another Paul Ryan.

[workinclasszero]

16. Figures

They are all lyin hypocrites.

[procon]

11. The GOP is too timid to take on corporate welfare so they attack the poor. nt